Teaches online

Teaches all skill levels

Age: 6-106

Speaks English, Bulgarian, Russian, French, Polish

Teaching since 2006

BFA, School of Animation & VFX, Compositing & Visual Effects

Learn to draw pictures that look like real life.

Margarita has been teaching art classes for over 18 years. She obtained her art degree from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. * Remote learning: individual and group classes. * Individual classes - 60 min/ $200, 45 min/$180, 30 min/$140 * Group lessons for a max of 4 students per class. Monthly tuition fee - $140/4 classes, 60 min each class. *The art classes are designed according to Art University standards and curriculum, and best suit students with a big interest in arts. Each one of the students has an individual study plan assigned (taking into consideration the student's age, the level of art skills, and personal goals in art he/she wants to reach.) The lessons consist of an art lecture, an art project (drawing, painting, etc.), and homework. - Art Exploration Class - The Art Exploration Class is designed for students, who would like to try different forms of art. The projects include collages, drawing, play-doh, papier-mâché, pyrography, polymer clay, painting, etc. - Drawing & Sketch Class - The Drawing & Sketch Class starts from beginner level up to college portfolio level. The art projects for this class use only dry art media (charcoal, soft pastels, oil pastels, drawing pencils, colored pencils, ink pens, markers, etc). - Painting Class -The Painting class is designed for students with well-developed sketching and drawing art skills. In this class are used only wet media (oil and acrylic paints on canvas, watercolors, and gouache on paper).

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Teaches Online

Teaching Hours

Monday

9:45 AM-2 PM

4 PM-8 PM

Tuesday

10 AM-2 PM

4 PM-8 PM

Wednesday

10 AM-2 PM

4 PM-8 PM

Thursday

10 AM-2 PM

4 PM-8 PM

Friday

10 AM-2 PM

4 PM-8 PM

Saturday

7 AM-8 AM

Times are shown in your local timezone (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Pricing

30 minutes

$140

45 minutes

$180

60 minutes

$200

About Margarita D.

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Margarita is a VFX & Compositing Artist and a Fine Arts Instructor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the School of Animation and Visual Effects at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, and an Associate of Arts Degree in Graphic Design. Since 2005 Margarita has been working with traditional and digital art media in her studio to provide graphic design and post-production services for movies, as well as to create artwork for various publishing and Visual Effects houses. She has been involved in numerous projects, among which is her outstanding compositing work in promotional videos for Tyco Electronics, one of the largest electronics companies in the US, as well as being the Visual Effects Supervisor for the animated film "Helena's Dream", which entered and won recognition in film festivals abroad and in the US. Margarita has taught fine arts classes at several schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently, she is an Art Instructor at Gundolina Virtual Art School, where she effectively teaches art appreciation and promotes creativity among her students. Favorite quote: “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso.

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Sanchita

Teacher's studio

Our daughter has been going to Gundolina Art School from 2018. During covid the virtual class has been god send gift to us and helped our daughter with continued support for her art and creativity skills. We are so happy and feel lucky that our daughter has a teacher like Ms.Maggie. Ms.Maggie has great approach towards teaching students, apart from concentrating on student's art and creativity skills, she also guides them on how to handle the problems they face.We often see our daughter apply the same principles and skills she learned during her art class in her academics which has helped her tremendously. Ms.Maggie also encourages students with scholarships and we are thankful to her for providing scholarship to our daughter, it has been proud and happy moment for us. We hope our daughter grows with continued support from Ms.Maggie. We also recommend Ms Maggi to all our friends and family.

Posted Oct 16, 2022

Sharon

Teacher's studio

It's such a joy to take classes with Margarita. As a children's librarian by profession I'm impressed with how well she teaches and inspires children, always a lot of smiles in her classes. As an adult returning to art I'm learning so much about the core fundamentals that are taking my art to the next level. Margarita is an expert teacher, kind, considerate, and dedicated to helping her students achieve and develop their potential and talent. I highly recommend her, and her classes.

Posted Feb 6, 2020

Jovanka Vujkovic

Student's home

My son is a beginner in drawing and is a bit apprehensive about his drawing skills. I really appreciated and liked Margarita's approach, setting music to create a relaxing atmosphere for drawing, explaining the steps, and the foundation for sketching. I think we approached drawing wrongly and after the lesson I changed our way. We play music now (which he likes) and he is drawing more often and is more relaxed.

Posted Sep 28, 2018