My name is Evgeniy Stasenko, I am an artist and art teacher. I have practiced both fine arts and teaching simultaneously more than 30 years.
I consider my move to Barcelona to be the best decision in my life. I’m in love with this charming beautiful city. And I am happy to share my love with everybody who will join me in sketching workshops on the streets and in the parks, pleasing the eye at any time of the year. You can book sketching tour on page Booking.
From my experience, sketching is one of the most effective and quickest ways to start drawing. But, when you start to draw by yourself, sometimes a kind of embarrassment appears that can prevent you even from doing the first lines. The essence of it is a short question: what to start with? So, I’ll show you the process of drawing step by step and moreover, I’ll give you a lot of tricks and hints, which help to build up a sketch, avoiding unnecessary work.
As teacher I have always aimed at creating an integral system, a consistent range of methods that would allow me to effectively teach drawing and painting to any person regardless of skills. These methods come as the result of experience; they are tested in practice and proven to give fast results. As well, I have a vast experience in creating specific short-term courses, not to mention fine art workshops, etc.
Thirty years of teaching kids and adults drawing and painting resulted in the writing of some teaching books. Two of them are available on Amazon. These books offer a new approach to artistic composition that is clear and practically applicable.
One is called Composition in Painting: Basics and Examples. The target readers of this book are art students. However, it will be of interest to both scientists and specialists since this book provides a new perspective on the topic of composition in the visual arts. Even ordinary readers who don’t have special knowledge in this area may find it interesting: the theory is clearly and logically explained without the use of technical terms.
The second book is Composition in Photography: A New Approach. Actually, I did not try to teach photography in my book. The book is an attempt to explore how the rules of composition used in painting could be applied in photography. This is why the book is subtitled “A New Approach.” For those who are open to new ideas, there is a lot of interesting stuff.
So if anyone is interested in composition issues, I’m happy to offer the result of my research.