Danguole Serstinskaja
Danguole Serstinskaja is a lithuanian artist and a professional dog breeder. She has been engaged with animals for multiple decades and it is her natural interest in the anatomical and psychological aspects of animals that has given her motivation to become an experienced animal artist within the field of realism. When painting animals, Danguole emphasizes on expressing the animals personality as accurately as it’s anatomy. For Danguole, observing and portraying the different expressions and personalities of different animals is a large part of what makes painting animals interesting.
The last 6 years she became extraordinarily interested in painting with oil on paper, using dry brush technique, which is a difficult technique requiring a lot of time to learn and master. It is also an exceptionally rare technique.
Oil dry brush is a painting technique in which a paint brush is relatively dry, but still holds paint, is used. The very thin layer of color is applied to a paper. Dry brush is layered layer after layer and reworked with an eraser, at this point it is possible to incorporate different lighting effects and details. Images painted with a dry brush appears similar to a photo.
