Zachary Volovar started painting in 2020. It was during an art class in his Sophomore year of High School that he discovered how much he liked it. He became determined to get better. Now, 5 years later, his work continues to grow and evolve.

Since I can remember, I’ve always loved being creative. From around the ages of 5-10 years old, I would get together with my brother and our friends and we’d draw up silly comic books with pencils and crayons; we all loved Captain Underpants. As I got a little older I became heavily obsessed with video games. One particular game I loved was called Minecraft, a game in which you can build and create whatever you wanted using blocks. I liked remaking famous places or my own house or building made-up castles in the game. Eventually High School rolled around. I took the usual run of the mill classes - Math, Science, Social Studies - and I was a pretty good student. I also took an art class every year, which I wasn’t too bad at that either. However, it wasn’t until my 11th grade year that I started to realize why I liked it so much. Art was the only class where you couldn’t just look up the answers. I enjoyed the freedom of it. Sure there were specific assignments like “draw an animal” or “do a landscape painting”, but your answers could still be whatever you wanted them to be and everyone else’s answers would be different. To pass art class you actually had to put in the work. It was a refreshing change from Google and Spark Notes. It was around this same time that High School was nearing its end and I started to realize that I needed a plan. I had accumulated thousands of hours playing video games throughout my Elementary, Middle, and High School years. Finally, I asked myself - “Have I been spending my time wisely enough? What if after all these years instead of playing video games everyday after school I was actually using this time to get better at something?” I saw the opportunity to maintain my creativity into adulthood and do something fun on a professional level. Thus, I became determined to become a successful artist… and the rest is history.