 At the age of 13, I pronounced myself as a lifelong student of art. Since then I have devoted my life to the arts. I find it fascinating and at the same time comforting to be able to create whatever is on my mind. I think it takes years of education and proper training to be able to fluently express your creativity. Every day I try to learn something new to express myself with more confidence.
I was born in Odessa, Ukraine and came to America at the age of six. In the summer of 2003, I got an internship at Sony Online Entertainment to work on the upcoming video game, Everquest II. Shorly after, I began studying at the Watts Atelier of the Arts in Encinitas, California. I wrote an article on animation for Imagine Magazine at Johns Hopkins University and created a five minute animated short film, "A Game of Pool", which featured on all American Airlines flights in September through December of 2004. After attending the Watts Atelier for many years, my focus shifted from animation to fine art painting. In 2007 I became a teacher at the Watts Atelier of the Arts and have taught classes on topics such as laying in the figure, portrait drawing and painting from photographs, portrait fundamentals, figure quicksketch, oil painting essentials, painterly drawing, and introduction to tonal drawing. Currently, my paintings hang in England, Scotland, and several galleries around the United States.
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