Oleg Shcherbakov is a great painter. He creates surprisingly warm and cozy works that depict nature, cities.
Oleg Shcherbakov is a talented artist. Basically, he creates landscapes of the Crimea. But in his works there are canvases depicting Central Russian nature.
Biography
Oleg Shcherbakov was born in 1963. He was born in the German city of Magdeburg. Then he and his family moved to Kryvyi Rih. Here the boy went to school. Already in childhood, his artistic talent manifested itself, which his parents encouraged in every possible way. Therefore, the Shcherbakovs' husband and wife had no doubts about where their son would go after whom, how he would receive a secondary education. Oleg went to the State Pedagogical University in the city of Krivoy Rog. He chose the graphic department.
Career
Oleg Shcherbakov graduated from the university, stayed to work there as a teacher of fine arts. The painter works here to the present time. He became a senior lecturer. Shcherbakov teaches novice masters of plastic anatomy, the basics of composition, painting.
Shcherbakov chose for himself such a technique as glazing. To recreate such canvases, the artist applies almost transparent paints of the desired shades one on top of the other. This helps to achieve amazing colors.
The artist likes the beauty of Yalta, the Crimean coast, the Gurzuf yayla. Therefore, he mainly reproduces the plots of these places. Shcherbakov creates subject compositions, still lifes, portraits. He often draws people in the clothes of the last century. His heroes stroll along the sea embankments, along the narrow southern streets in vestments of the early 20th century. The artist is close to the technique of marina. This word translated from Latin means "sea". This genre of painting involves the image of seascapes, views, battles.
Artist's canvases
Looking at Shcherbakov's canvases, one can understand how Yalta looked a little over 100 years ago, how adults and children were dressing at that time.
The artist Shcherbakov cannot pass by the playing children. He carries a notebook with him and immediately starts sketching. Then, in the workshop, he recreates what he saw recently in paints. This is how the canvases "Game", "Ship" have turned out.
In his painting "Under the Sun of Miskhor" Shcherbakov portrayed two little girls playing in the sand near the water under the southern sun.
The artist also likes to portray yachts. In a painting called "Tango", he captured the ship of the same name, which is docked near the pier.
Natural landscapes are also removed to the artist. Drawing bays, he recreates bizarre rocks in the distant plan, which are in harmony with the blue surface of the sea.
Shcherbakov, with the help of paints and a brush, transferred to the canvas the beauty of Central Russian nature with its velvet green slopes, on which meadow flowers flaunt.
Every connoisseur of artwork will certainly find for himself several masterpieces of the creative painter that will become his favorites.
The canvases of the famous artist, who made a great contribution to perpetuating the corners of the Crimean coast, are kept by collectors from different countries, including England, Canada, Ukraine, Russia.
