People send photos to the painter under a special hashtag, and she transforms them in her own unique way. She also creates stories for her paintings. Recently Fandeeva published a book titled TheNew Tales of Kamchatka, in which she not only (un)traditionally combined photography and painting, but also wrote the fairy-tales themselves.
“Everybody talks about magic in illustrations, but it’s an illusion. I want to create a miracle that’s only possible for a painter, without leaving the limits of physics and optics – to put all colors together and get pure light,” the painter recently shared one of her desires.
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