Portraits
Olga Kalitkina (1987) was born in a small West Siberian mining town.
She started drawing as soon as she could hold a pencil in her hand and set her own still lives, asked grandparents to pose for the portraits.
After 4 years of education, at the age of 14, graduated from Prokop’evsk art school.
After the school went to the training courses at the Tomsk Architecture University where she actually re-mastered the drawing technique.
Studied at the Department of Design of architectural environment up to 4th course.
At the university her enthusiasm in drawing and painting reached professional level. Vladimir PavlovichVlasov, one of the favorite teachers, was the one who especially influenced this passion.
Favorite artists: Vrubel’, Klimt, Korovin, Degas, Monet
“I’m fond of drawing portraits of people, their figures…and then learn the plasticity of the human body, its individual traits, transmit the mood through the image and colors.
She can’t tell precisely which technique and fabric she prefers to use; it depends mostly on her current mood.
Now she switched to acrylics as it is unpredictable on different surfaces and doesn’t change its original color. But still she has a passion for painting with soft pastels.
Olga started drawing portraits with pastels in 2010.
'Pastels is all I had for that period, I’ve got it since the art school. I enjoy the feeling of its touch on the surface of the paper, controling the whole process of mixing colors, and see how my fingers literally create something beautiful.
This love might stem from childhood memories when you could carelessly draw with chalk on warm asphalt…”
Olga lives and works in Saint-Petersburg since September 2011.
Together with her boyfriend she set up a small independent online record label where she works as a creative director, manager and of course, designer.