Christiano De Araujo

Home: Toronto, Ontario
Title: Mariya Protsenko
Media: Oil on canvas / huile sur toile
Dimensions: 61 x 46 cm

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.