Leonid Afremov was born in the city of Vitebsk, Belarus in 1955. Leonid Afremov graduated from Vitebsk Art School in 1978. Leonid was building up his experience by painting a lot with oil and participating in various exhibitions. The scorching southern sun filled with colors and brightness made Leonids paintings positive and joyous. Artists personality reflects his unusual technique which was developed and perfected many years of hard work. His artistic style is unique and easily recognized. Leonid uses palette-knife instead of regular brushes to put paint on canvas. Palette-knife itself is intended to be used for cleaning old paint from canvas. It is very rare that any artist ventures to use it as an instrument in painting together with a brush, and it is even more rare that any artist. Working with palette-knife gives fantastic possibilities, but it is also fantastically difficult to master. It took 10 years for Leonid Afremov to build up his palette-knife handling skill up to the level that it is now.The artist himself is a convinced optimist and this can be easily seen in his creative artworks. His paintings make viewers feel lighter and more positive.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:47:55 +0000
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