Before the storm

Sergey Akimov, Russia

I have no special art education, but I have been drawing all my life. Professional artistic activity began in 2003, when I began working at the N.T. Graf publishing and printing complex. There I went from an employee in the numbering department to the chief artist of the enterprise. In the art department, I was lucky enough to work under the leadership of Igor Sergeevich Krylkov, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, chief artist of Goznak. This is an invaluable experience that takes your skill to a new level. A little later I was attracted to airbrushing. She shocked me with her new, vast possibilities. In 2007 I completed courses in airbrushing. My teacher was Pavel Levin, one of the best artists of this movement in Russia. Having mastered airbrushing, I worked as a teacher at Exstudio and carried out various orders for artistic painting. During my work, I helped more than one hundred people master the airbrush and do more than a dozen works. Now I work as a freelancer.