Igor Khalandovskiy

My name is Igor Khalandovskiy. I was born in Ukraine in the city of Kharkov. Since my school years I dreamed of becoming a professional artist. At that time I attended an Art School for Children.

After I graduated from high school, I entered the Kharkov Art Academy, and spent seven years studying painting, drawing, art composition, graphic illustration, art and industrial design.
I was one of the top students of my class, and several of my projects had won awards for the best art design at International Exhibitions.

I graduated from Art University in 1991 with Master Degree in Fine Arts. From that time I have been worked as graphic artist and art designer.

For the past nineteen years I have lived and worked in the United States. I have learned and mastered such fields as graphic design and digital animation.

To improve my professional expertise in digital art media I entered Iowa State University. Now I am close to complete my second Master Degree in the fields of digital visualization and landscape architecture.

For all these years I continued working as freelance artist (watercolor, tempera, acrylic, digital photo manipulation, 3d rendered art images).

For the past four year I have been working as a teacher ...