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Lessons Learned

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Olga Dytyniak

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I Learn by Going Where I Need To Go

Posted on December 2, 2015 by Olga Dytyniak

An icon writer is born, not made.  Like all great artists, she or he can not not paint.  It is the reason for one’s very existence.  This feeling consumes you and infiltrates most areas of your daily life.   You … Continue reading →

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Medium as Message

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Olga Dytyniak

  Often as I work, in fact, always, at some point I feel I have ruined an icon with some over painting or other. Particularly on skin, a float usually will help to blend out imperfections, the idea being that … Continue reading →

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We Live In the Negative Space…

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Olga Dytyniak

  Erasing yet another area that needed redoing on an icon I realized another universal pervasive law of the universe that is replicated across all disciplines. Quantum physics has already labeled this phenomenon as “negative space”. That is, we are … Continue reading →

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