Show all images on one page	#003776 Title: Mushroom Time! Artist: Trondina Svetlana Size: 13.5x6.5x3.5 Size (inches): 5.25x2.5x1.25 Price : $495 SOLD!

This marvelous composition was created by well-known Mstera artist Svetlana Trondina, whose works are always notable for interesting and original subjects.
Trondina Svetlana Valentinovna was born in 1974. She finished the Mstera Vocational Art School in 1996 where her teacher was Denis Molodkin. The work of famous Mstera artist Ekaterina Zonina had a great influence on Trondina's creative works.
The composition depicts one of the favorite past times in Russia - gathering mushrooms. Men, woman, families and single mushroom hunters stroll in forest, looking for mushrooms. They got pleasure from fresh forest air and feel excitement and joy finding a mushroom. Later they may fry mushrooms with potatoes or marinate them. Mushrooms are irreplaceable ingredients of the Russian cuisine. A wide variety of dishes are cooked using mushrooms, such as: pickled mushrooms, fried mushrooms, mushroom soup and many others. In the middle of the composition the artist depicts the most popular mushroom in Russia - edible boletus (Russian people call this sort of mushrooms as "white mushrooms").
This composition is very colorful and decorative. It is painted in the traditional for Mstera art colors: green, blue, yellow, red and brown. These contrast colors are successfully matched and well balanced.
The first thing one notices about Trondina's work is the detail. She uses a traditional Russian style of detailing, which uses repetition of shapes such as blotches, lines, or curves.
The characters are also well drawn. The young peasant is carrying also some fire wood, as long as an old Mushroom hunter is carrying only a basket. They don't even noticed that a bear is also watching for them