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About my first drawing teacher




"Try to draw some still life" I gathered my children's drawings back into a stack and went home to look for items to put together a still life. It was around 1989. That was the first time I came to see Andrei to show my work. Then I noticed that every time he looked at my new drawing, he first found something to praise me for. And then Andrei would talk for a long time about what and how I could improve my work. One of the walls in his studio was filled with art books from floor to ceiling. When he wanted to show me an example, he would go to that wall and pick up the book. His eyes shone with inspiration as he talked about how any of the artists had organized the composition, what plastic solution he had found, how he had worked with tone and color. His inspiration was passed to me. Thanks to Andrei's stories, I learned how diverse the world of art is and fell in love with its different styles. 



Andrei always looked very extravagantly. He wore a long black robe in oriental style with a red stripe around the edge and a headband over his curly black hair. His beard and mustache were black, too. Andrei had a handsome hooked nose, and unusually lively eyes. In one hand he held a sharpened pencil, in the other a cigarette. Sharpening a pencil was one of the technical skills he taught me. The sight of the pencil after sharpening was impressive! And drawing with such a pencil was a special aesthetic pleasure. Recently I saw a pencil sharpened in a similar way in a workshop at the Art Academy in Vilnius. I remembered Andrei and the living little light of memory warmed me with a warm light. It was with this pencil that he used to draw his graphic works.




The graceful, carefully crafted plastic explores the hidden structure of the subject in a new way revealing its character.


I, too, drew a work using such a pencil and watercolor. Andrei consulted me throughout the whole process of its creation. Together we looked for a way to express my idea. This staircase is a life path leading to the exit, to the light. It is made up of many small staircases, of different directions, of luck and mistakes, of rest and of hard work. No matter what happens, the man keeps moving and his path is beautiful in its own way.


Svetlana Grigoryeva, 1990 Andrey Razgulyaev was born on March 13, 1963 in the village of Tokhoi, Buryat ASSR. Graduated from the Irkutsk Art School. Andrei was a book graphic artist and designer. One of the organizers of the Cultural Caravan in Irkutsk in 1992. Entrepreneur, owner of Razgulyaev Design Studio. Passed away in 2020. I am very grateful to this man. Thanks to him, my path as an artist began.

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