Finist is a clear falcon. Let's draw a falcon Signs of a fairy tale

We continue the series of drawings “Birds of Prey”. I wanted to write “let’s start,” but I realized that we had already drawn predators - an eagle owl and an owl.

But they are nocturnal, and now we will talk about those who hunt during the day. I will draw them not only to write another lesson for the site, but also out of personal interest - recently my son and I were walking through the forest, and in the sky we saw the silhouette of a soaring bird.

ABOUT! This is a bird of prey, I thought smartly, but very vaguely. And, upon arriving home, I immediately set about filling the gaps in my knowledge. According to my estimates, it turns out that we saw a falcon.

Yes, the one in whose honor people call the heroes “Falcons”, the girls in fairy tales call their loved ones falcons. Do you remember Finist - Yasny Sokol?

Falconry is also widely known - large (noble) falcons and a hare can “take”. Smaller falcons make do by catching mice, lizards or small birds. However, there are also small falcons that feed on insects.

But it’s time to move on to the stated topic - how to draw a falcon.

Drawing a falcon in flight

Of course, first we will draw a diagram with a pencil.

The body is compact - elongated, the neck does not stand out - so together with the head the bird looks like a torpedo. Moreover, the beak is small and strongly curved down. The tail is narrow, folded in flight rather than fanned out.

The wings... the wings are very large, they are believed to be sickle-shaped. Well, depending on how you look at it, if you look at it in three-quarters, then the bend of the wings looks very tricky.

Well, how do we paint it? But the color is light ocher with numerous spots, one might say pockmarked.

Yeah, powerful bird, you'll fall in love!

Let's draw the head of a falcon

What immediately catches your eye? - Large round eyes with an attentive and unkind expression and a beak with a very strongly hooked upper beak (this is the name of the upper half of the beak).

The head is flattened, the forehead is very sloping - everything for a streamlined shape and speed of flight.

Even the outline drawing of the falcon's head is very impressive, and if you color it...

And one more lesson - how to draw a sitting falcon. Or standing?

Step-by-step drawing - a falcon has landed

The falcon has landed and is looking around vigilantly.

The body is almost straightened, extended upward.

The wings are not yet folded on the back and are ready to fly. The paws tenaciously hold on to the stump with powerful claws - well, that’s right, from level ground it would be very difficult for a falcon with its large wings to take off.

There lived a peasant, and soon he became a widower. He left behind three daughters. The man had a huge farm, and he decided to take on a worker as an assistant. However, Maryushka dissuaded him, saying that she would help him in everything. So she works from dawn to dusk, and her sisters just dress up and have fun.

So the father went to the city and asked his daughters what to bring them. The eldest and middle asked for different outfits and trinkets, only Maryushka needed a feather from Finist, the clear falcon.

On the way home, he met a strange old man who gave him the treasured feather.

The peasant brought gifts home, the girls rejoiced and made fun of their sister.

So everyone went to bed, and she took the feather and said the magic words. Since then, the groom appeared to her at night, and in the morning he turned into a bird again. The envious sisters tracked her down and set a trap for the falcon. He injured himself on sharp knives and could not break through to the girl. Then he said that she would look for him for a long time, having worn out more than one pair of shoes.

Maryushka set off on her journey. She walked and walked and came across a hut in which Baba Yaga lived. She then told her that her fiancé had been bewitched by an evil sorceress, turned him into a bird and made him her husband by force. The old woman gave the girl a saucer and a golden egg and sent her to a distant kingdom. She also advised her that Maryushka should get hired to work for the queen, and when she finished all her work, she would begin to roll the egg on a saucer. And if she is asked to sell this miracle, she will not agree.

When the girl walked through the dense forest, all the forest animals helped her get there. And the gray wolf even carried her to the magnificent mansion. Here she went to work for the ruler.

For her things, which the old women gave her, she looked at her betrothed. But she had to do this at night, when he was fast asleep and it was impossible to wake him. And now she only had the bottom and the spindle, and she gave them for a meeting with the groom. Only Finist, the clear falcon, does not wake up. The girl began to sob, and one tear fell on him. Her lover woke up. But the sorceress does not want to give up Finist, the clear falcon. Then he asked in front of all his subjects whether a real wife could lie? Then everyone realized that Maryushka was suitable for his wife.

They got married and began to live happily.

The work teaches us that each of us can make ourselves happy by working through perseverance and love for people.

Picture or drawing Finist - clear falcon

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St. Petersburg: Expedition for the procurement of state papers, 1902. 12 p. with ill. The cover and illustrations are made using the chromolithography technique. In a color illustrated publisher's cover. 32.5x25.5 cm. Series “Fairy Tales”. Super classic!

Of course, Bilibin had predecessors, and above all Elena Dmitrievna Polenova (1850-1898). But Ivan Yakovlevich still followed his own path. At first, he did the illustrations not to order, but, one might say, for himself. But it turned out that the Expedition for Procurement of State Papers became interested in them. The best Russian printing house, founded in 1818, printed banknotes, credit cards and other official products that required special means of protection against counterfeiting. Issues of cost and economic feasibility did not concern her. The expedition was generously financed by the state; it did not need funds. But the people who led the Expedition for the procurement of state papers - its manager - the prince, but also the famous scientist, academician Boris Borisovich Golitsyn (1862-1916), engineer and inventor Georgy Nikolaevich Skamoni (1835-1907), were tired of the monotony of official products. Bilibin makes illustrations for “The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf”, for “The Frog Princess”, for “The Feather of Finist Yasna-Falcon”, for “Vasilisa the Beautiful”.

These were all watercolors. But in the Expedition for the Procurement of State Papers they decided to reproduce them by chromolithography. It was the twentieth century, and the dominance of photomechanical methods of reproduction had already established itself in printing, and the Expedition allegedly revived ancient reproduction processes. Bilibin showed his watercolors in 1900 at the second exhibition of the World of Art. The artist seems to be reconsidering his views on the community, which both Ilya Efimovich Repin and the outstanding critic Vladimir Vasilyevich Stasov (1824-1906) interpreted as decadent. The word “decadence,” derived from the Latin decadentia, meaning “decline,” became attached to the new artistic movement.

It is interesting that V.V. Stasov, in his critical analysis of the World of Art exhibition, contrasted Bilibin with the rest of its participants - the “decadents”, drawing parallels between this artist and the Wanderer Sergei Vasilyevich Malyutin (1859-1937). “Not so long ago, in 1898,” wrote Stasov, “Malyutin exhibited about a dozen illustrations for Pushkin’s fairy tale “Tsar Saltan” and for the poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila”... At the current exhibition there are no illustrations by Mr. Malyutin, but there are several excellent similar illustrations by Mr. Bilibin - 10 pictures for the fairy tales “The Frog Princess”, “Finist’s Feather...” and for the saying:

Once upon a time there lived a king

The king had a court

There was a stake in the yard

There is bast on the stake,

Shouldn't we start the fairy tale over again?

These are all very pleasant and wonderful phenomena. The national spirit in the work of our new artists has not yet died! Against!". The watercolor with the king picking his nose was reproduced by the Expedition for the Procurement of State Papers using a special technique - algraphy - flat printing from aluminum plates. The prints were attached to the St. Petersburg magazine “Printing Art,” which enjoyed great authority among printers, but, unfortunately, was not published for long. They started talking about Bilibin, emphasizing the uniqueness and originality of his talent.

Acquaintance with the artists of the Mamontov circle E. Polenova and S. Malyutin, with the paintings of V. Vasnetsov, helped Bilibin find his theme. He, being a member of the “World of Art” circle, becomes an adherent of the national romantic movement. It all started with an exhibition of Moscow artists in 1899 in St. Petersburg, at which I. Bilibin saw the painting “Bogatyrs” by V. Vasnetsov. Brought up in a St. Petersburg environment, far from any fascination with the national past, the artist unexpectedly showed interest in Russian antiquity, fairy tales, and folk art. In the summer of the same year, Bilibin went to the village of Egny, Tver province, to see for himself the dense forests, clear rivers, wooden huts, and hear fairy tales and songs. Paintings from the exhibition of Viktor Vasnetsov come to life in the imagination. Artist Ivan Bilibin begins to illustrate Russian folk tales from Afanasyev's collection. And in the fall of the same year, the Expedition for the Procurement of State Papers began to publish a series of fairy tales with Bilibin’s drawings.

Over the course of 4 years, Ivan Bilibin illustrated seven fairy tales: “Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka”, “White Duck”, “The Frog Princess”, “Marya Morevna”, “The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf” ", "Feather of Finist Yasna-Falcon", "Vasilisa the Beautiful". Editions of fairy tales are of the type of small, large-format notebooks. From the very beginning, Bilibin's books were distinguished by their patterned designs and bright decorativeness. The artist did not create individual illustrations, he strove for an ensemble: he drew the cover, illustrations, ornamental decorations, font - he stylized everything to resemble an old manuscript. The names of the fairy tales are written in Slavic script. To read, you need to look closely at the intricate design of the letters. Like many graphic artists, Bilibin worked on decorative type. He knew the fonts of different eras well, especially the Old Russian ustav and semi-ustav. For all six books, Bilibin draws the same cover, on which there are Russian fairy-tale characters: three heroes, the bird Sirin, the Firebird, the Gray Wolf, the Serpent-Gorynych, the hut of Baba Yaga. And yet it is clear that this antiquity is stylized as modern. All page illustrations are surrounded by ornamental frames, like rustic windows with carved frames. They are not only decorative, but also have content that continues the main illustration.

In the fairy tale “Vasilisa the Beautiful,” the illustration with the Red Horseman (sun) is surrounded by flowers, and the Black Horseman (night) is surrounded by mythical birds with human heads. The illustration with Baba Yaga's hut is surrounded by a frame with toadstools (what else could be next to Baba Yaga?). But the most important thing for Bilibin was the atmosphere of Russian antiquity, epic, fairy tale. From authentic ornaments and details, he created a half-real, half-fantastic world. Ornament was a favorite motif of ancient Russian masters and the main feature of the art of that time. These are embroidered tablecloths, towels, painted wooden and pottery, houses with carved frames and piers. In his illustrations, Bilibin used sketches of peasant buildings, utensils, and clothing made in the village of Yegny. Bilibin proved himself to be a book artist; he did not limit himself to making individual illustrations, but strived for integrity. Feeling the specificity of book graphics, he emphasizes the plane with a contour line and monochromatic watercolor painting. Systematic drawing lessons under the guidance of Ilya Repin and acquaintance with the magazine and society “World of Art” contributed to the growth of Bilibin’s skill and general culture. The expedition to the Vologda and Arkhangelsk provinces on the instructions of the ethnographic department of the World of Art society was of decisive importance for the artist. Bilibin became acquainted with the folk art of the North, saw with his own eyes ancient churches, huts, utensils in the house, ancient outfits, embroidery. Contact with the primary source of artistic national culture forced the artist to practically re-evaluate his early works. From now on, he will be extremely accurate in depicting architecture, costume, and everyday life. From his trip to the North, Bilibin brought back many drawings, photographs, and a collection of folk art. Documentary substantiation of every detail becomes the artist’s constant creative principle. Bilibin's passion for ancient Russian art was reflected in the illustrations for Pushkin's fairy tales, which he created after a trip to the North in 1905–1908. Work on fairy tales was preceded by the creation of sets and costumes for Rimsky-Korsakov’s operas “The Tale of the Golden Cockerel” and “The Tale of Tsar Saltan” by A.S. Pushkin. Bilibin achieves special brilliance and invention in his illustrations for fairy tales by A.S. Pushkin.

The luxurious royal chambers are completely covered with patterns, paintings, and decorations. Here the ornament so abundantly covers the floor, ceiling, walls, clothes of the king and boyars that everything turns into a kind of unsteady vision, existing in a special illusory world and ready to disappear. “The Tale of the Golden Cockerel” was the most successful for the artist. Bilibin combined the satirical content of the fairy tale with the Russian popular print into a single whole. Beautiful four illustrations and a spread completely tell us the content of the fairy tale. Let us remember the popular print, which contained a whole story in a picture. Pushkin's fairy tales were a huge success. The Russian Museum of Alexander III bought illustrations for “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, and the entire illustrated cycle “Tales of the Golden Cockerel” was acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery.

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The peasant had three daughters. The eldest and middle are envious and angry, and the youngest, Mashenka, is kind, affectionate, hard-working, of unwritten beauty.
Once a peasant went to the city to the market, called his daughters to say goodbye and asked:
– What gifts, daughters, should I bring you?
“Bring us, daddy, shawls, painted and embroidered in gold,” the eldest and middle asked.
“And for me, father, if you find it, Finist’s feather is clear to the falcon,” Mashenka asked.

The peasant returned home sad, brought gifts for his older daughters, but did not find his youngest.
I'm going to the city next time. The daughters ordered various gifts, and Mashenka again asked to bring her a feather.
In the city, the peasant went around all the shops, but did not find the feather anywhere. On the way home he meets a little old man.
-Where are you going, honey? - asked the old man.
– I’m returning home from the city. I’m bringing gifts for my daughters, but I can’t find a gift for my youngest. She wanted Finist's feather - the clear falcon.

– This feather is not simple, it’s treasured. Take it as a gift for your daughter, may she be happy.
The peasant was delighted and drove his horses home as fast as he could.

In the evening, when everyone had gone to bed, Mashenka took a feather, hit it on the floor and said:
- Dear Finist, a clear falcon, fly to me, my betrothed.
And out of nowhere a young man of unprecedented beauty appeared. And by morning he turned into a falcon and flew away to distant lands.
He began to fly to Mashenka every evening until the evil sisters noticed him. They envied Mashenka and planned something evil.
We went into her little room, and while she was gone, they stuck knives and needles into the frames, and hid themselves to see what would happen.

A bright falcon flew up to the window, but there was nowhere to sit, the knives were sticking out sharp. He started banging on the window, but Mashenka was not in the room. A clear falcon crashed and bled, and injured its paws. And then he says:
“If you need me, then you will find me far away, until you trample three forged shoes, break three staves, and lose three iron hats.”

Then Mashenka entered the little room and heard it, but it was too late. Her Finist, a clear falcon, flew away.
She cried all her tears and began to go to distant lands to look for her falcon. I ordered forged shoes, iron staffs and caps. I said goodbye to my father and sisters and went wherever my eyes led me.
How long or short did it take her to come to a clearing, and in it was a hut on chicken legs.

- Stand to me, hut, in front, back to the forest. I want to go in and relax.
The hut turned around, Mashenka came in and saw Baba Yaga in the hut. And then let's swear:
- Ugh, ugh, girl, why are you wandering around, disturbing your sleep?
“I’m looking, grandma, for Finist, the clear falcon,” Mashenka answers.

- It's a long search for you, girl. He now lives in the thirtieth country. The queen there bewitched him. Here, dear, take the golden egg and the silver saucer. Go to the queen and hire her as a servant. Just don’t sell the saucer and the egg, just give it away, just ask the clear falcon to see it.

Mashenka went further. She walked and walked and already wore out her forged shoes. Here again he comes out into a clearing, and there is a hut spinning on chicken legs.
Masha went into the hut, and Baba Yaga was sitting there.
- Fu, fu, girl, what are you looking for here?
“I’m going to the thirtieth kingdom for Finist, the clear falcon,” Mashenka answers.
“I see you also visited my sister.” She decided to help you, and I will help. Maybe you will find your falcon. Here is a golden needle and a silver hoop for you. The needle is not simple, it can embroider itself. If the queen asks you to sell, then don’t sell, but give it for free, just let her let you look at Finist.