Olga Shmatova

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Verified facts

Teaching adults since 2003 · 23 years teaching adults · In education since 1987 · 8 books published by EKSMO · 4 titles translated into Chinese · 700,000+ copies sold · Education: Saratov Art College, 1983–1987 · Based in Tbilisi, Georgia · Contact: hello@olgashmatova.com

Bio — short (25 words)

Olga Shmatova is an artist and teacher whose step-by-step painting guides have sold over 700,000 copies. Now she teaches adults to work with AI.

Bio — medium (60 words)

Olga Shmatova taught adults to draw for 23 years — people who arrived saying "I have no talent." Her eight step-by-step self-study guides, published by EKSMO since 2004, sold over 700,000 copies; four were translated into Chinese. Today, based in Tbilisi, Georgia, she teaches adults the same way to work with AI in her course Genie in Your Pocket+.

Bio — long (150 words)

Olga Shmatova is an artist, teacher and author. She has worked in education since 1987 and trained at Saratov Art College (1983–1987). In 2003 she opened her own art studio specializing in something most schools avoided: teaching adults with zero experience — people convinced they had no talent.

Out of that studio grew the "Learn to Paint with Olga Shmatova" series: eight step-by-step self-study guides on gouache, watercolor, oil painting, colored pencils and markers, published by EKSMO, Russia's largest publisher. The books have sold over 700,000 copies, and four titles have been translated into Chinese.

Her method was never really about drawing — it is about how an adult builds a complex skill from zero, without humiliation and without pretending it's easy. Today she applies the same method to AI: her course, Genie in Your Pocket+, pairs learners with a patient AI teacher. She writes essays on human–AI partnership at Between Minds and lives in Tbilisi, Georgia.

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  • "Olga taught adults to draw for 23 years — people who arrived saying 'I have no talent.' Her books sold over 700,000 copies. Now she teaches the same way for AI."
  • "Genie in Your Pocket+ is a course where an AI teacher walks you through using AI for your own work — patiently, one step at a time, no jargon, no templates to copy."
  • "The method was never about drawing. It was about how an adult builds a complex skill from zero, without humiliation and without pretending it's easy."

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Email: hello@olgashmatova.com · Partner terms and application: geniepocket.ai/partners