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Nina Khashchina

Nina Khaschina is a California-based urban sketcher and graphic designer who has filled over 155 books with moments captured while running, caregiving, waiting in doctors’ offices, or sitting in parks. Her work is rooted in observational drawings of everyday moments that she finds beautiful precisely because of their transience and mundanity.

She finds the diverse colors, textures, and lighting of urban environments interesting when capturing both static and moving subjects. Nina is drawn to experimentation, especially with textures that she collects and incorporates into her work. She innovates by combining paper stencils made on the go with urgent, expressive, and diverse mark making.

She is further known for her gouache, ink, and mixed media work, which she uses to capture the immediate impressions of her surroundings directly from life. Nina works minimally, beginning with gestures and major shapes, implying details through layered textures and calligraphic lines.

She has been drawing and painting as an instructor for kids and adults for over 15 years. She has led several Bay Area USk workshops. In her teaching she encourages artists to incorporate her techniques into their own styles, and favorite media.

WS05 – Printmaking on the Go: Wild Textures Tamed with Stencils