Gulyaeva Elena Alekseevna - a native of Vladivostok - became a famous artist. The genres with which she is interested are landscape, portrait, still life. There are no dark colors in the paintings. She herself says that she sees the world in pink glasses, and is glad about it. She likes to illustrate children's books. She travels a lot and develops as an artist.
From biography
Elena Alekseevna Gulyaeva was born in 1979 in the city of Vladivostok. Father is a native of Vladivostok. Her grandfather was the director of the Philharmonic. She keeps his hat like a relic.
She went to the profession of an artist from childhood. Even before school, she attended an art studio. Once she painted a whole city, with houses, roads and bridges. Buses with people rode along the bridges. At school, she painted cartoons for classmates. Then there was an art school. There she opened up completely. The issue of education has long been resolved.
Optimistic creator
Few adults can see the world bright, sunny, positive. Such a small number of people can be attributed to E. Gulyaev. Each time she takes a brush in her hands in order to make sure - the world is beautiful!
The emotional impact of paintings by E. Gulyaeva is powerful. She shares with the audience her impressions of her native Vladivostok, its nature, its people. In most of her paintings, sunlight works wonders, and water and air help him. All these elements together create a life-affirming element. The effect of the pictures is light and joyful.
Pink glasses can only be worn by someone who keeps childhood in the shower.
Small homeland
On her Vladivostok landscapes, bright colors shine - soft blue, soft pink. There are no dark colors - black, brown, gray.
Even the thistle is painted blooming, with red heads, all in green. On the shore of the water surface. It is joyful to look at him, although association with the name usually does not cause such a feeling.
Landscape paintings reflecting the nature of Vladivostok, created by delicate light colors. It seems that the air here is so fresh that you definitely want to feel it. Islands, hills, buildings, sea transport - all done in bright colors.
Still lifes
Her still lifes are original. A light table lamp, next to a simple vase are flowers of a reddish-violet hue and a vase with rosehip berries. On a white tablecloth, not yet picked berries.
And here is a picture that reflects the month when everything in nature matures and smells of diverse tastes. This sugar August was reflected by the artist. On a light blue tablecloth, a simple vase with pinkish flowers and with the main culprit of the taste color - a notched watermelon. He is so sugary that you want to try it.
Elena loves to portray objects of the eastern countries of bluish-silver color. Reddish shades of other objects shimmer against the background of colorful fabrics of brown and yellowish colors. An Easter still life is also interesting, where there is a painted towel, a Russian samovar and painted eggs. The main distant background is the appearance of the Virgin.
Classic and novelty portraits
Elena agrees that photography will not replace the portrait. She has little left: the picture goes to its prototype. While working in college, she invites sitters to classes, writes them with the students, and then gives the picture to the hostess.
In one of the galleries of Vladivostok, her exhibition of portraits of Vladivostok residents opened. E. Gulyaeva spoke about the technique of drawing works from nature. She used colored cardboard, gouache. The birth of the image took place without a pencil and eraser. She, traditionally building interaction with a person, tried to catch the expression of her eyes, mood, character. Every meeting for her is an amazing story.
She is sure that the artist should be a little in love with the posing, and he should fully trust the artist.
Children's portraits
A peculiar portrait of a baby. The background is the cathedral. The baby on a winter day with a joyful look holds tassels of red berries. Fresh and wonderful in your soul when you look at this image. She's like a fairy tale. Elena tells how this picture appeared. When the daughter Katya was born, she completely abandoned creativity. They walked in the park, the girl played by the bush of viburnum and laughed. Snow fluttered. This condition of the child inspired her. From this moment, the next step in her creative life began.
Here is another princess, leaning on, posing in an old armchair. She is in a semi-airy dress of slightly scarlet fabric. Nearby is a dog painted in light shades too. He seemed to dissolve at her feet and, invisible, vigilantly guards the little mistress.
Illustrator
Once, the sister of the writer E. Mukovozova asked Elena if she wants to make out a book. Lena was close to the "children's" theme. Subsequently, her drawings were decorated with a collection of poems by E. Mukovozova "In my city, the city of the sea." The joint work of two creative people never ceases to amaze.
In 2017, E. Gulyaeva created more illustrations for book covers:
Magical workplace
The studio was Elena's long-standing dream. She, as a family man, has many worries. And the studio is a place where it experiences creative happiness: it leaves all informational “garbage”. Here there is only the world of art, and in it she is the mistress.
Now she teaches painting in college, which she calls the work of a lifetime. Elena believes that she has a creative guardian angel. She says that she was lucky for teachers and that she also wants to become for others the same creative guardian angel.
