Olha Yefymova (Ellaya)

Kyiv, Ukraine. Painting.

I realized that I don’t like to make digital art and want to be an artist as I always dreamed to be (working with real brushes)


Ellaya

I am aspiring Ukrainian artist started my path in art during pandemic in 2020.

I have medical education and good understanding of such measure like lockdown and its consequences for people.

When the pandemic started I was attending concept art classes (CG), so my education was interrupted. My child (3 y.o.) have started to go to kindergarten, but it was closed too. I’ve started to spend a lot of time with my child again, and we drew a lot.

Then I realized that I don’t like to make digital art and want to be an artist as I always dreamed to be (working with real brushes). When kindergartens have been opened again, I started to create art series “Paramedical reflections”.

Today we have a lockdown again, so it’s hard to work, because I need to spend almost all of my time with my child.

But I use this time to create new ideas (in my notes) and to submit my paintings to the galleries and open calls. I still create new paintings (slowly) when my husband is a babysitter))

#365daysafter art project