Randomly entered a local contest today — and my kokoshnik won! 🏆
Missed the ceremony — went to the wrong place. 🤦♀️ But we had fun and we're picking up the prize tomorrow!
Now I can finally sell it with peace of mind! ✨
#Kokoshnik #TraditionalArt #CreativeContest #Winning
A young woman, likely a noblewoman or idealized “boyar girl,” is shown from the waist up, seated at an angle and turning her face toward us. Her skin is light with a warm flush across the cheeks, and her dark eyes and brows are softly focused rather than confrontational. She wears a tall, rounded kokoshnik headdress covered in pearl beads and jewel decorations, with a sheer white veil falling around her head and shoulders. Long strands of beads frame her face like a curtain. Her dress is white and luminous, painted with delicate, translucent layers. The bodice is studded with small, colorful gem-like accents and a vertical row of reflective buttons. At her cuffs, more beadwork and sparkle catch the light. Her forearms rest on a ledge in the lower right, hands relaxed and partly cropped by the frame. The background is a pale gray-white field with faint vertical strokes, keeping the attention on the woman’s calm expression and the intricate textures of pearls, fabric, and light. Light is handled gently rather than dramatically so highlights skim the pearls and the veil, while the face is has soft transitions. The overall palette stays cool and restrained with whites, silvers, and muted greens so the small reds and brighter greens of the ornament hit like quiet points of music. Paintings like this draw on the late-Imperial fascination with “Old Russia,” where costume becomes a kind of time machine like the kokoshnik and veil signaling tradition and rank, while the her gaze feels modern and intimate. It presents an unidentified model as an emblem of heritage who is carefully adorned, yet rendered with warmth rather than pageantry. The Russian artist, Sofya Ivanovna Junker-Kramskaya (Софья Ивановна Юнкер-Крамская), worked within a realist portrait culture shaped by her father, Ivan Kramskoy, who wrote that his daughter was “beginning to give me serious hopes.” Here, historical dress becomes identity-work to depict womanhood staged between public role and private life.
“Боярышня в кокошнике (Girl in Kokoshnik)” by Sofya Junker-Kramskaya (Russian) - Oil on canvas / c. 1905 - State Hermitage Museum (St Petersburg, Russia) #WomenInArt #SofyaJunkerKramskaya #СофьяЮнкерКрамская #WomanArtist #Hermitage #HermitageMuseum #Kokoshnik #art #artText #WomensArt #WomenArtists
Kokoshnik style horns😂 yep, it is a girl griffin😌
Смахивает на Тимошенко🤣
#art #griffin #procreate #ipad #kokoshnik #rissianstyle #sketch #скетч #digital #грифон
Finally got around to futzing with the #Russian #kokoshnik silhouette in 2017 for ‘Seraphina’. Never got the skirting colors quite right (thrifted fabrics just do what they want 😩) but love her from the waist up. #cosplay #costume #diy #originaldesign #stainedglass #headpiece #mask #fauxfur
Please, dear world, tell me that making a #kokoshnik was not an idiotic thing to do?#QuickToTheHatCave... https://flic.kr/p/oCiUSe
