The Colors of Portrait
Adult Online Art | Available
ONLINE on Zoom | 3 Fridays: January 17,24,31 2025 | 10am-1pm Arizona Time (*always on Mountain Standard Time) | recording available for 2 months
Eastern European Realists are famous for creating great, expressive portrait paintings with powerful emotions. Their brushwork is precise and mesmerizing, and their colors are fresh and vibrant.
In an informative and compelling class devoted to Colors and Tones in Portrait Painting, Viktoria Kalaichi will share some of the techniques that have made her so successful. She will show how to use unmixed colors and how to group these colors together to achieve the desired skin tones. Viktoria will also discuss how to avoid mixing certain hues that would otherwise result in dull or muddy colors.
Victoria 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.