Chinese Butterfly Painting

I'm Katerina Niedieliaieva, . My life story is similar to climbing a high mountain. I loved drawing since childhood and drawing was my favorite subject in school. Therefore, at the age of 15 I went to enter the art college of Krasnodar in Russia ... but did not pass through the selection and received bad grades in the entrance examinations ... I had a poor preparation for painting and I did not know how to paint with watercolors and that they should be diluted with water. I cried for three days but then I entered the pedagogical school and graduated with honors. There, for the first time, experienced teachers began to teach me painting and drawing ... At the age of 20 I entered the Pedagogical Institute in the city of Kursk and graduated with honors in 5 years ... There I studied painting and drawing, drawing and pedagogy. Then I worked in high school as a drawing and drafting teacher for almost 30 years ... After the main work, I worked with children with clay modeling and applique ... I created a puppet theater and did plays for children. My artists were also children ... At the age of 47, I decided to become a retired seniority worker and took up a garden. I learned how to get good harvests of vegetables and planted almost 50 trees, a lot of grapes and berry bushes on a small piece of land that I bought with my mother before retiring. I did not have time to paint. So 10 years passed ... During this time my mother died tragically and I was left alone. I had depression and thought of dying because my life lost all meaning. My house was in the Donetsk region and since 2014 military operations began and planes were flying over my city and it was audible how the cannons were firing .... But our city Druzhkovka was lucky and the war did not touch it. In October 2017 I met on a dating site a lovely man from Normandy in France who helped me find myself and I started painting again after 10 years of a break in my work. I paint because I want to bring the beauty and the colors of nature onto the canvas for people to enjoy in their always busy lives. Sometimes I have a dream and than I put this on paper