Look At These Flowers Very Carefully,

there is something strange about them,

but what? all photographs by Olesya Galushcenko,

for them to be featured on our blog, they must be totally different, 

and they are, they are all hand made!

 by Ukrainian artist Olesya Galushcenko, it’s hard to believe that all the flowers aren’t actually real but made of hard porcelain, provided the artist works from early morning until late at night, she can create one peony in a day, while a sprig of lilac takes about a week. Because of the work involved in creating a single porcelain flowers, Olesya Galushcenko’s creations are not exactly cheap, but there are always buyers lining up to buy her works, and there’s almost always a waiting list of customers, “Once I was commissioned to make one hundred porcelain tulips, but the customer could not buy them out due to financial difficulties. I put them up on my website and they were sold out in a day or two,” Olesya said,

Olesya Galushcenko is a hydraulics engineer who got into porcelain flower making as a personal challenge. Seven years ago, during maternity leave, she decided to take on an artistic project that involved using her hands, and a decorative flower bouquet caught her eye,

 the artist was self-taught, so she refused to pay for classes and decided to learn the craft herself using free internet tutorials. But they only served to get her started, because she soon realized that polymer clay wasn’t the right material for the degree of realism she wanted, so she decided to experiment herself and soon discovered that cold porcelain met her requirements, “The author of the works that impressed me was self-taught and my motto is ‘if someone else could do it, then so can I’,” Olesya told Dumskaya.net. “And that’s how it all began. But in the end the tutorials did not satisfy me, because everything turned out to be too decorative, and I wanted realism.” despite receiving countless offers, Olesya Galushcenko refuses to teach classes or make tutorials on how to create stunningly realistic porcelain flowers, because she believes that once she has shared her secrets, the charm of her art will be lost, “Firstly, I believe that every master should go his own way, study different materials, and not work according to any one methodology,” the Ukrainian artist said.  In general, it is enough to learn how to mold clay and observe nature, to disassemble flowers by petal. Also, if I already share my secrets, the exclusivity of my products will be lost.” for more stunning botanical masterpieces, check out Olesya Galushcenko’s Facebook page, I have to say I have seen many porcelain flowers before, but none as finally detailed as these, they are stunning!