Danguole Serstinskaja

Danguole is an award-winning artist from Lithuania who focuses on hyper realistic animal portraits. With experience from decades of training, breeding, judging dogs as an FCI Judge, and keeping other animals, she draws upon her understanding of animal psychology as well as anatomy to produce art that captures and embeds animal’s emotions into the art piece.Within her artwork the animal is the only subject and focus of the story. Danguole has lifelong experience as an artist and after producing hundreds of drawings and paintings she eventually found and developed a rare drybrush technique which perfectly aligns with her artistic desire to portray animals deeply, accurately and efficiently. The said technique is applying oil on paper using a dry paint brush. Having mastered this technique Danguole has gained a liberating amount of control over the intensity of shading and ability to add as much detail as she desires. She works layer after layer, until her artistic vision is fulfilled, and the result is art with distinct tonal gradation, hyper realistic detail and contrast that makes the painting hard to distinguish from a photograph. Danguole is currently International Chapter Member of “American Artists Professional League” 20 times American Art Awards Winner and Masterpiece Winner 2018 Finalist in the 13th International Art Renewal Center Salon Competition