Creating Form with Color in Portrait
Workshop | Available
In our workshop we would like to focus on how the form affects value and color (specifically when painting a portrait). We would like to work with artists who have experience in working with a live model, so that we can skip the anatomical structure of the human head and deep dive into the intricacies of painting and migrations of color. We will share (with you) our painting techniques, the color palettes and “tricks of the trade” that we use when working with the model to create an engaging portrait. Students will have a unique opportunity to see two individual approaches to painting from two different artists who are both rooted in the same underlying painting tradition. We hope that this workshop will help artists to deepen their understanding of the principles of oil painting. www.kalaichi.com/; and www.sarazhin-denis.com
Viktoriia Kalaichi
Born in 1986 in the city of Ordzhonikidze in the USSR, North Caucasus. Grew up and lived in Ukraine. She graduated from the Crimean Art College in Ukraine named after Samokish in 2006. In the same year, she entered the prestigious Kharkov State Academy of Arts and Design. She studied in the Portrait and Genre Workshop of People's Artist of Ukraine, Professor Ganotsky, and under Honored Artist of Ukraine, Professor Chaus. Since 2008, she has been a participant in numerous exhibitions and international Plein airs. Her paintings are in private collections in China, America, Holland, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, etc. Since 2019 she has been a member of Kharkov’s section of the association of Ukraine’s Artists’ Alliance. Her work is represented by Arcadia Gallery, NY, NY, and Paul Scott Gallery.