Most Pabst's paintings take less than a day.ĭry-brush painting is nothing like traditional oil painting. which present images of his dry-brush paintings as learning material. His videos are used by art schools in the U.S. He now receives orders from clients all over the world and has drawn a number of singers, actors, football player, and politicians. Since then he has created his own business and currently works at it full-time. Over the next week, the young artist began advertising his work online and immediately started receiving commissions. There was broad encouragement for his art as guests asked why he had not made his hobby his profession. It wasn't until he decided to draw a portrait for a friend's birthday party that Pabst's career initially began. Except for high school art classes and some art instruction through a community youth group in his hometown of Minden (Northwest Germany), Pabst is self-taught. Pabst was born in western Siberia where he spent his formative years before his parents moved to Germany around 1995. He's been painting professionally for about ten years. Today, most Russian street artists use a dry-brush technique, which has now started to spread around the world. Even after the Soviet printing industry belatedly caught up with the West, large scale dry-brush portraits continued to be produced inasmuch as artist had little choice but to work dirt cheap. Using this method, propaganda images could be rendered on paper or cardboard (in sections) on virtually any scale, providing there was a solid surface for their mounting. Hence the term, "dry-brush" (something like watercolor without the water). Instead, Russian artists developed a technique using soft brushes (what we'd call watercolor brushes) and oil paints without thinning to a liquid state.
They were also too technically demanding, considering the number of such works required.
Traditional painting methods proved to be too costly in terms of paint and canvas as well as too time consuming. Photographic and other means of printing were quite limited in size at the time so the government began recruiting artists to create photo-realistic portraits of leaders such a Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin. According to Pabst, this method of painting developed during the early days of the Communist regime almost ninety years ago as the party sought to develop a cult following of its leaders through the use of gigantic public posters up to twenty feet (6 meters) tall. Pabst began learning dry-brush painting tech-niques while still a teenager in Russia. What appear to be drawings are, in fact, really paintings. The secret to the three-dimensional super realism seen in the artist's work is that he uses oil paints and a dry-brush drawing/painting technique. Play the video again and notice how little of Pabst's work is done in pencil. Anything rendered in black and white is seen as.well, second rate.
I suppose the overall art market may have a lot to do with the fact that few artists draw and sell drawings. Before that, some used charcoal, but most simply laid in their preliminary compositions with a brush loaded with paint. Even though most of the great painting masters of the distant past were expert draughtsmen, it has only been in the past couple hundred years that artists took pencils to primed canvas to outline their images. Stephan Pabst's work blurs the line between drawing and painting.
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