Natasha Kramskaya - Portraits

'Self Portrait on Blue’, 2021

This artist self-portrait was painted over a period of several months at the beginning of year 2021. The painting, with its wild colors and bold brushstrokes, reflects tough turbulent times with their many challenges and emotions. Yet there is a sense of hope, like in many Natasha's paintings. The eyes of the artist stare deep into a viewer's sole. Beautiful work with many details — you'll find something new to explore each time you look at this portrait.

🔴 Private collection

Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 26 inches wide, by 21 inches tall, by 1.5 inches deep, including frame. Painted on an artisan-made highly textured one-of-a-kind canvas. Ready to hang with gallery-style metal wire (framed in a simple wooden frame, see image below).

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‘Perfect Stranger’, 2022

‘Perfect Stranger’ is an oil and acrylic painting on gallery canvas. "I’ve been exploring the balance between the abstract and the real;" says Natasha. "It’s surprising how much detail your brain can fill in with just a few vague shapes." Most vivid colors dance on canvas, inviting one to explore the face with a continuous motion. The subject's realistically-depicted eye is staring at the viewer with silent inquisition.

$500.00 with free continental US shipping

Acrylic and oil on gallery canvas, 6 inches wide, 6 inches tall, by 1.5 inches deep.
Ready to hang with gallery-style metal wire (unframed).

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‘Ode to Frida’, 2020

"Most colorful and vidid painting portrait of Frida Kahlo, the way I see her" says Natasha. The portrait, with its pops of every color of the rainbow is set against a deep forest green background. You can spot a hammer and sickle in Frida's earrings — a nod to her involvement with communist party and being romantically involved with Trotsky. Painted in the color blocking technique Natasha has developed over the years.

$900.00 + shipping
Acrylic on gallery canvas, 30 inches wide, by 40 inches tall, by 1.5 inches deep.
Ready to hang with gallery-style metal wire (unframed).

Artist Kramskaya next to her portrait of Kahlo

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‘Volodymir Zelenskiy’, 2022

Natasha painted portrait of the Ukrainian president Volodymir Zelenskiy on March 18th, 2022, few weeks after the start of Russian invasion of Ukraine. In his expression she captured a multitude of emotions, ranging from determination to exhaustion to hope. Ukrainian flag is visible in the background.

$450.00 plus shipping.
Artist will donate part of proceeds to nonprofit organizations dedicated to providing humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine.

Acrylic on canvas, 18 inches wide, 24 inches tall.
Ready to hang with gallery-style metal wire (unframed).
Additional images are available upon request.

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‘The Past Inside The Present’, 2022

Natasha's first work of 2022, this painting is an abstract portrait of a woman. Her right eye is painted with realistic attention, but the rest of the work is done with brilliant vivid blocks of saturated color. The artist is taking her bold color approach further with bigger, decisive brush strokes. One is almost overwhelmed with the brightness of paint choices; the radioactive teal in her left eye, the neon orange of her right cheekbone... Your eye keeps traveling around the face, following the angles and curves created by the swing of the artist's arm. The colors overall are bright and happy, almost child-like, yet the woman's eye looks at the viewer with wistful melancholy. Done at the peak of Covid-19 pandemic in early January 2022 Northern California.

$650.00 plus shipping

Art floater frame created by Natasha is available for $250.00

Acrylic on canvas, 16 inches wide, by 12 inches tall, by 0.75 inches deep.
Ready to hang with gallery-style metal wire (unframed).
Art frame available at additional cost.

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‘Lola’, 2020

Painted in November of 2020. “The year 2020 has made me paint a lot faster, with more quick decisive brushstrokes. 2020 — the year of global pandemic — showed us that life is precious, and no time should be wasted”, says Natasha. ‘Lola’ is about raw energy; it is about movement, color, texture and emotion. The woman in the painting is confident, strong, determined, urban. Bright blocks of color, accompanied by graffiti-like paint drips bring this painting to life, while highlights of bright blue add electric energy to the overall work. This work was inspired by people and art seen around the city of San Jose, California, as well as the entire San Francisco Bay Area.

$400.00 plus shipping

Acrylic on canvas, 12 inches wide by 16 inches tall, by 0.5 inches deep.
Ready to hang with gallery-style metal wire (unframed).

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‘Jim’, 2019

Oil and acrylic portrait of Jim Morrison. Riders On The Storm lyrics graffitied in the background. Set in a vintage gilded frame.

$850.00 plus shipping

Acrylic and oil on canvas, 35 inches wide by 49 inches tall, by 4.5 inches deep (frame included).
Ready to hang with gallery-style metal wire.

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‘Sunny Day in the Marina’, 2022

Custom portrait study. Quick decisive brushstrokes and use of a restricted color palette.

🔴 Private collection

Acrylic on canvas, 8 inches wide, by 10.5 inches tall, by 0.75 inches deep.
Ready to hang with gallery-style metal wire (unframed).

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‘Her Smile’, 2020

Expressive portrait of a black woman with a subtle Mona Lisa-like smile. She is beautiful. She is strong. She is inspiring. Her eyes suggest quiet contemplation but there is also determination. Her face is made up of bright colorful paint brush strokes of all the different colors. She is a one-of-a-kind individual and she knows no limitations. Due to the shortage of art materials during the stay-at-home isolation of 2020, the portrait was created on an artisan one of a kind hand-made canvas.

🔴 Private collection

Oil on canvas, 18 inches wide, by 20 inches tall, by 0.8 inches deep.
Ready to hang with gallery-style metal wire (unframed).

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‘Blue Portrait’, 2022

This portrait was painted from a found vintage photograph — it's of a bygone era of romanticism, literature, arts, and inspiration. Painted in a limited monochromatic blue palette as a nod to the black and white photography. The portrait is mysterious as one can't tell if it's of a woman or a man. Gentle contemplation is seen in the eyes.

🔴 Private collection

Oil on canvas, 6 inches wide, by 6 inches tall, by 1.5 inches deep.
Ready to hang with gallery-style metal wire (unframed).

Click video below to watch Natasha paint this portrait in her studio.

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‘Untitled’, 2022

Natasha painted this portrait at the start of Russian invasion of Ukraine. Done mostly in oil, with Ukrainian flag-colored brush strokes covering one of the eyes.

🔴 Private collection

Mostly oil with acrylic touches on canvas board, 8 inches wide, 10.5 inches tall.
Additional images are available upon request.

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‘Liquid Matter, VI’, 2019

Last portrait remaining available of the Liquid Matter series Natasha created in 2019.

$900.00 plus shipping

Acrylic and oil on canvas, 18 inches wide, 24 inches tall, by 0.5 inches deep.
Ready to hang with gallery-style metal wire (unframed).

Artist Kramskaya next to her portrait of Kahlo

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