olechko

Last night together with MindtheGap and the other good friends Igor Melnychuk studio. Igor is a professor at the Kyiv Academy of Art, widely exhibited and sold all over Ukraine and abroad. His main interest is Hutzul culture, and the paintings tell that: mountains and bucolic huts on his landscapes, ethnically dressed hutzuls. He spends most of his summers in the Carpathians with his students on plain air and scavenging for local antiques.Brings in the business to the villagers who model sometimes for weeks for a painting. He defines his technique as impressionism: achieving maximum effect with minimum strokes. Here are some of his works (mostly they are in very large format):