From icon painting to watercolor - one step

Andrey Kovalik drew began to draw in childhood. After studying for five years at the iconographic school at MDA, and for three years after graduating on free bread, I felt that he was missing something. He already had an interesting job, order, but he did not have enough freedom. And Andrew, decided for some time to leave the icon to get the missing resources.
And immediately turned to watercolor. The young artist began to learn from the best watercolorists, whom he could get to. Among them are Sergey Kurbatov, Yevgeny Gorean, Igor Sava, Yevgeny Kisnican, Alvaro Castanet. Every day, Andrei worked, wrote etudes from life. For himself, he came up with the technology of learning in the form of an exciting game. It is called “100 days with watercolor”. Every day for 100 days, Andrei began to write at least one paper in watercolor. But every day the quality of work and equipment became better and better.
In search of inspiration, the artist visited Georgia, the Crimea, and also visited Kiev, Lviv, the Carpathians, Moscow, Pereslavl-Zalessky. In addition, Andrew conducted demonstration and training workshops in Yaremche, Chernivtsi, Kiev, Sergiev Posad. During this time, he held a personal exhibition of watercolors in Chernivtsi and general exhibitions in Kiev and Chernivtsi. The works of Kovalik Andrew immediately aroused interest among art lovers, and now some of the landscapes are in private collections in Russia and Ukraine.
And all these events took place in a few months.
The artist himself says the following: “Such rapid growth happened due to the fact that I learned from the best watercolorists and worked every day, and of course with God's help! Because everything that we have, God gives us! Now, looking back at this year’s journey, I see that this is only the beginning. ” He plans to study a lot, develop professionally, travel to various beautiful picturesque places, organize open-airs and master classes, exhibitions. Kovalik’s rapid growth inspires many, so he decided to continue to share his knowledge, skills, enthusiasm and create a school of drawing.