Christiano De Araujo
Home: Toronto, Ontario
Title: Mariya Protsenko
Media: Oil on canvas / huile sur toile
Dimensions: 61 x 46 cm
Website: christiano.ca
I decided to use vibrant colors to depict Mariya’s playfulness essence and vivid imagination. That was the day Mariya transcended mortality through canvas.
EMPLOYMENT
2007 to present Global Colors Inc., Airbrush Mural painter/Sculptor
2000-06 Goldwell Interior & Exterior Finishes, Mural artist
1992-99 Journal da Mulher, 0 Real and Brasil News, Art Director
EDUCATION
2006 St. Christopher House, Toronto, ON. GED Program/High school equivalent
1993 Escola de Belas Artes Osvaldo Verano, Goias, Brazil, Fine Arts Designer
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Over 20 years effectively organizing the display and sale of my own personal artwork to Fine Galleries and through private sales. Educated and skilled as a multi-media Fine Arts professional.
TRADITIONAL MEDIA and TOOLS
Oil and acrylic paint, Airbrushing, watercolor, gouache, dry & oil pastel, chalk, charcoal, rapid graph fountain pen, nib. Sculpturing: Styrofoam, Clay, terra-cotta, wax, plaster, soap stone and winter stone.
RELEVANT SKILLS
Artistic Skills: Sketching, drawing and painting. Training in all the latest illustration tools Techniques in portraits, cartooning and caricatures, Anatomy illustration. Writing and creating comic strips. Creation of characters and story boards.