About the Instructor

Stan Solo is an artist, freelance illustrator, and instructor of various art techniques. He has been working independently for seven years. As a freelance illustrator, he creates commercial and applied illustrations, paints murals in restaurants, cafés, and offices across Prague, and produces both small- and large-format commissioned paintings. His personal work is influenced by street culture, comics, street art, graffiti, and, not least, music and architecture.

He is currently developing the next installment of his original series The No Face, which explores the impact of human activity and commercial influences on cities, nature, and the shared public space. His most frequently used techniques and media include watercolor, acrylic, and ink. He is also an orthodox, highly technical airbrusher. While digital work is essential for him—especially when preparing designs for clients and architects—he is deeply in love with strictly analog creation. For example, his posters are now printed exclusively by hand, using posterization of his own designs followed by stencil techniques.

Stan is a passionate urban sketcher. Over the course of his teaching career, he has inspired more than 2,000 people and taught them the technical foundations of drawing, sketching, and illustration. He exhibited at the Art Block festival in 2016, and in 2018 he was part of an exhibition at the Future Gate Festival. He has produced three illustrative series and is currently focusing more and more on his personal artistic work.