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NOTE: If you get my blog posts by email, you should know that Google is taking away Feedburner email subscriptions next month. If I’m unable to replace it with another service, you’ll just have to click over to the blog to see new posts. Yuri Vasilyevich Volkov (1921-1991) was a Russian painter who painted field studies to understand light effects for his studio paintings. From the water’s edge, he painted the transparency and reflectivity of the shore waters. He was interested in how you could see the pebbles through the shallow water and the way the far planes of the water reflected the sky colors. He also painted studies of models posing outdoors in natural light to aid him in his battle paintings. His studio paintings include seaside scenes with lots of people playing and bathing…  …and joyous scenes of home and harvest. Presumably these composition were “built” from studies made on location. But Volkov is best known for his battle paintings. Volkov was injured in World War II, cap