TRADITIONAL PAINTINGS

Carrying out time: 

Round the year

There are more than 10 various types of traditional painting in the Vologda Region. First, they could be divided as graphic and free brush (“one stroke”). Frontons, internal partitions, spinning wheels, lockers, boxes, and tableware were painted. The Veliky Ustyug style of painting, semi-transparent and light, was mostly used to decorate birch boxes and tussocks.

This workshop will allow you to get familiar with one of the traditional painting techniques of the Vologda area (Kharovsk, Sheksna, Gryazovets, Gayutino, Kichmen-Gorodets, and others).

Masters of folk crafts:

Olga Gladysheva - national master of Russia

Zhanna Veresova – craftsmen of the Vologda region

Svetlana Letovaltseva - craftsmen of the Vologda region               

Svetlana Ryabova - craftsmen of the Vologda region

Galina Talalova - craftsmen of theVologda region

Cost for any workshop is 150 rubles per person. No less than five people are needed for a workshop. (Smaller groups are charged at the rate of five people.)