Vladan Ignjatovic
MASTER ARTIST
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MEDIUMS: Acrylic | Digital | Drawing | Gouache | Graphite | Ink | Mixed Media | Oil | Watercolor
SPECIALTY: ✔ Technique
During the mentoring process, I focus on the work itself: how to present an idea, or how to translate a three-dimensional world into two-dimensional form. As a result of observing, analyzing, and exercising, I hope you learn to interpret what you see and feel critically. Visual artists cannot reproduce, so we don’t. Having a plan, a concept, and priorities is essential. In addition, we don’t wait for inspiration; the best ideas come from the process. In order to become a better artist, you must create.
Vladan’s EXPERTISE
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Specialty: ✔ Technique
Technique:
Color & Composition
Technique Demos
Supplies and tools – what to use, where to save, and where to spend
Providing Art Critiques
Teaching how to self critique
Business:
Approaching Galleries
Running Your Art Business
Studio Time Management
“Mastrius is a perfect balance of accountability, community and fun.
It feels like family. Family that makes you a better you.”
~ Elizabeth, Emerging Artist
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MORE ABOUT THE ARTIST
Vladan was born in 1955 in Serbia. He has a natural eye for art; one of his earliest memories as a child was his preference for a pencil and paper over the usual toys. Artistic talent runs in his family yet no one became professional; Vladan opted for a career in electrical engineering as a ‘practical’ vocation. During the summer months, between his studies, Vladan studied painting and printmaking amidst other art professionals. Eventually, in his late twenties, he became a full time fine artist in Belgrade. After arriving in Toronto in 1993, he began painting murals for commercial and residential spaces and participated in numerous local art exhibitions. Since 1995, Vladan has worked in the animation industry creating digital image backgrounds. For seven years, between 2009 and 2016, he was an art instructor at the College of Animation, Art and Design in Toronto.
“My practice revolves around the interplay of shape and colour and the interaction between abstract and representative, between intuition and observation. I am trying to suggest, rather than describe. Honestly, I think I paint one painting all the time, in variations. Mind you, there is no such thing as a single “meaning”, we all see differently.
As an artist, I came to terms with the fact that “reality escapes us every moment of our life”. Since it is impossible to capture these fleeting moments, let’s go search for the essence. The essence of painting is a transposition, not an imitation. At the final phase a painting should reach the fullness of its being, to become autonomous and independent of me. At that point, not before, it suddenly comes available for the emotional communication with a viewer. It’s not mine anymore, it has never been my destination.
The inspiration comes from my everyday experiences, a memory, an impression, a poem, a sudden insight, art in general. I love tackling the whole variety of approaches: sketching first, or turning into the white canvas, or to a textured, under-painted one.
My earliest memories are about drawing, hours and hours of drawing. Such an early infection was probably a response to a certain need. I think everyone is special in some way.
I admire the work of Michelangelo, Modigliani, Degas, Matisse, Schiele, Sargent, Moore, Rodin, Giacometti, amongst many.
Medias I explore are pencils, India ink, gouache, acrylics, oils, and digital media.”
