Fedoskino Style
Uglich, Russia 2009
We took a river cruise from St. Petersburg to Moscow and as we were leaving the quay, I shot this lovely little church. Of course, I thought they were all lovely, even the ones that were half destroyed.
I did a lot to this to make it resemble one of those miniature paintings done on papier mache boxes in the village of Fedoskino. Those take years of practice and hours of labor while mine took minutes. I am sure they would not approve of me even mentioning their name, but perhaps after seeing this you will check them out on the web.
Photoshop has a new filter called oil painting and I used it. Here is a detail so you can see the paintbrush strokes.
Detail
Maybe I’m a Philistine, but I like it and I’m happy and that is all that matters.
Dear Rosemary, I hate to bring mistake to peoples attention but I think you have the wrong city on this picture. I believe this is the Church of St Demetrius of The Spilled Blood in UGLICH not Yaroslavi. I just happen to be writing a post for my blog when I ran across your photo.
Thanks for your help, Larry. You are right. The city where the church is found is Uglich.