the mermaid of alexander petrov

i am absolutely stunned by how beautiful the amazing paint on glass animation of aleksandr petrov is.

so what is "paint-on-glass?"

" the film is made entirely in pastel oil paintings on glass, a technique mastered by only a handful of animators in the world. by using his fingertips instead of a paintbrush on different glass sheets positioned on multiple levels, each covered with slow-drying oil paints, he was able to add depth to his paintings. after photographing each frame painted on the glass sheets, which was four times larger than the usual a4-sized canvas, he had to slightly modify the painting for the next frame and so on."


today i'm sharing his film "the mermaid". based on a dramatic poem by alexander pushkin,entitled "the rusalka" the worlds of religion, sexuality, and other-worldliness find a point of confluence that leaves many questions both asked and unanswered. the reader (and in this case the viewer) are left to find their own resolution or to remain hovering in an unresolved state.