Artist's Statement

To me, an artist is not the one who has only spent several years in art classes. You can teach how to draw almost everyone. The real artist should be able to see and feel art in everything and derive inspiration from anything. I like to observe. My paintings usually start with the subject image and then go to the color idea if needed. I use different mediums and techniques that better suits the theme – from large scale landscape paintings and murals to magazine cover illustrations. Variety of mediums includes oil, watercolor, India ink, acrylic, pastel and even super-modern digital paintbrush. That is why all my works are so different as if they were created by different artists. Versatility - that is what I like.  ̶̶̶  Yuri Trushin