Saturday 18 December 2021

Oleg Pankov b.1968

 


Oleg Pankov wood mosaic paintings

Puppy made in intarsia technique. Oleg Pankov wood mosaic paintings

Oleg Pankov wood mosaic paintings
Born 16 March 1968 in Orekhovo-Zuevo of Moscow region, Oleg Pankov is a talented wood artist who works in the intarsia technique. He has created the whole gallery of beautiful wood paintings that leaves no one indifferent.
In fact, the art of making wood paintings has a long history. For the first time such wooden items appeared in ancient Egypt. Since the Nile Valley is not rich in forest, all the valuable wood was imported from afar. Therefore, wooden products were luxury items, craftsmen used wood with beautiful texture and unusual color for inlaying wooden products along with ivory, precious metals and stones.
Today, after almost a century of fascination with synthetic materials, the wood is again at the height of fashion. Breathable, warm, alive, wood products can become real luxury items, if you decorate them with intarsia. Like centuries ago, intarsia today is painstaking manual work with a figurative image created from plates of wood, different in texture, color, embedded in a wooden surface.

Oleg Pankov wood mosaic paintings

Adorable puppy with a boot. Oleg Pankov wood mosaic paintings

According to this technigue, the master takes individual wooden plates that make up the pattern and fits them tightly along the edges. Then, glues and puts into the array of the decorated object. Then, with the cutting tool handles pieces of wood to achieve the desired thickness. In addition, the master carefully smoothes and polishes the front side of the plates. Also, he leaves the bottom surface rough for better adhesion to the base, and solid wood serves as a background for mosaic decorations.

Ram


Woodpecker

Woodpecker

White headed eagle

White headed eagle

Turtle

Turtle

Turkey

Turkey

Tigress with tiger cub

Tigress with tiger cub

Tiger on a tree trunk

Tiger on a tree trunk

Sunface

Sunface

Squirrel

Squirrel

Snake

Snake

Sleeping kitty

Sleeping kitty

Ram's head

Ram’s head

Pike

Pike

Owl

Owl

Leopard

Leopard

Japanese woman

Japanese woman

Horse's head

Horse’s head

Horse with foal

Horse with foal

Grouse

Grouse

Giraffes

Giraffes

Fish

Fish

Elk

Elk

Dog with a ball

Dog with a ball

Cat

Cat wood mosaic

Bulldog

Bulldog

Beaver

Beaver

Bear cub with bear

Bear cub with bear

Russian wood artist Oleg Pankov

Russian wood artist Oleg Pankov

Chen Mantian b.1968

 






































































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