Artist Interview With Igor Lukyanov
Today’s Artist Interview Is With Igor Lukyanov from Kramatorst, Ukraine
Whopple: How long have you been an artist?
Igor: I’ve being drawing for all my life, although only 5 years as a professional artist.
Whopple: Tell us about your first attempts to be creative.
Igor: It’s really hard to remember the first attempts as drawing was always like breathing for me – a natural state of mind. I remember how I used to be surprised when people told me they could not draw. I am a self-taught artist and I’ve being learning to create art for all my life.
Artist Interview With Michelle Beaulieu
Today’s Artist Interview Is With Michelle Beaulieu From Worcester, MA.
Whopple: How long have you been an artist?
Michelle: I guess really started to consider myself a true artist around my junior year of high school, when I really started becoming interested in art, and could actually see myself pursuing it as a career.
Whopple: Tell us about your first attempts to be creative.
Michelle: I was always pretty creative growing up. I always liked to color when I was a little kid and throughout high school I loved to draw (especially portraits). Looking back on alot of my old artwork I have definitely seen myself grow alot.
Artist Interview With Jean Marie
Today’s Artist Interview Is With Jean Marie From Carver, Massachusetts.
Whopple: How long have you been an artist?
Jean: All my life..!! I was born with a pencil in my hand. I drew everything I saw. I loved trees, their rough irregular way the bark is formed, their up-spreading graceful limbs with their outspreading leaves. Fashion was my passion when I was younger and I drew outrageously billowing gowns and dresses.
Whopple: Tell us about your first attempts to be creative.
Jean: It goes back to my childhood, I would draw everything I saw, the trees, the grasses, the ducks in our backyard, my childhood friend. At night I would draw the religious pictures that we had in our home. We played with paper dolls & created fashions for them. My cousin was in art school at the time and she would tell me that a person was seven heads tall and show me the fashion designs that she was creating and how and the different poses of a woman and I was mesmerized. I would then create flowing gowns and dresses for my paper dolls. Up to now I was only using pencil and charcoal, then I discovered pen and ink and what amazing pictures you could create with crosshatching, dots and just lines to create the shadows and light.
