Art Chowder March | April 2018, Issue 14 | Page 10

"Pears and Grapes"
20 x 20” - oil on canvas
Art Chowder: Okay, and what about after college?
Victoria: After college, I worked at a gallery, and organized and taught art classes for children…and of course painted, showed,
and sold my works in Moscow. 
In the late 80s early 90s I became interested in computer graphics, especially 3D modeling.  It was a new and exciting area
to explore.  Back then no colleges in Russia were teaching computer graphics, but I was lucky to get a job at a company that
was looking for classically trained artists and was willing to teach them 3D modeling. Working as a CG artist did not leave
much time for painting, but I treated CG as a new medium. I have been lucky that, at all my jobs, I was given a lot of creative
freedom. After all, it’s the same things an artist has to deal with—look and feel, color, composition, expressing ideas in visual
language. But I missed the “real” aspect of painting in oils. Eventually, I decided to go back to fine art full-time and retired from
the CG field in 2007. 
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