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SKETCH GALLERY: Kalina Ivanov

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When I was eight years old and growing up in communist Sofia, my teacher told my mother that I had no artistic talent, but she was going to give me an ‘A’ because I tried so hard in painting class.

Out of sheer stubbornness I kept drawing every day and fell in love with the sound of a 2B pencil on a school textbook page.  Soon that pencil became an extension of my dreams, and in college those dreams transformed into set designs.

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Every movie has its own particular challenges and artistic needs, so my role as a production designer is to communicate to the audience the director’s vision.

Here's how production designer Kalina Ivanov helped Gotham take a bite out of the Big Apple with "The Penguin" filming in New York.

Kalina's design philosophy is to immerse herself in the script, fully embody the characters and reveal their history through color, texture and.

Kalina Ivanov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Kalina Ivanov designed the Oscar nominated “Little Miss Sunshine,” as well as “Max,“ “Poltergeist,“ “Rabbit Hole,” “Made Of Honor,” “Brown Sugar,” “Smoke,” “.

Kalina Ivanov attends a special screening of "The Boys in the Boat" at the Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday, Dec. 13, , in New York.

Maybe because English is my second language, I find words slippery and I rely on my drawings to best express my ideas. To do that I start drawing on a piece of vellum, and I play with light, space and proportions. I draw fast to avoid over-thinking, and as the pencil moves rhythmically, the design ideas crystallize.

I lose myself in the proc