Portfolio Requirements

Portfolio Requirements

Students who are thinking of perusing a career in the visual arts will need to attend an art school or university that has an art program. There many colleges and art schools to choose from. Each school requires a portfolio of art work that the admissions officers use...
Portrait Drawing   mrfatta.com

Portrait Drawing mrfatta.com

  Few stories in art history are more heart wrenching than Frida Kahlo’s, as a     child she was disabled with polio for some time, later in 1925 when Frida was   only eighteen years old she was seriously injured in a bus crash which left   her in severe pain for most...
Georgia O’Keeffe Landscapes

Georgia O’Keeffe Landscapes

Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887. She longed to be an artist from an early age. When she was 18 she attended the Art Institute of Chicago and a year later went to study at the Art Students League of New York. MountainsTreeDetailPatternColorPaint I can...
mrfatta.com Georgia O’Keeffe

mrfatta.com Georgia O’Keeffe

Georgia O’Keeffe was born in Wisconsin in 1887. She longed to be an artist from an early age. When she was 18 she attended the Art Institute of Chicago and a year later went to study at the Art Students League of New York. She worked briefly as a commercial artist in...
Lou Fatta

Lou Fatta

I work in steel using a variety of welding techniques, mainly oxytocin acetylene for cutting silhouetted shapes of cars, crows, ravens, songbirds, ants, and city skylines, along with images of vines and weeds that infiltrate the city structure. My work involves the...
Draw an Egg

Draw an Egg

By shading with different values of gray artists can create the illusion of space and form in their drawings. Properly positioning the highlight, mid-tone, and shadow areas artists can make a basic shape can look like it has real three-dimensional form. Study the...
Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse was a French painter and sculptor who lived from 1869 – 1954. He is most known for his brightly colored paintings from the early 1900 pioneering what’s known as the fauvist style. Fauvism emphasized strong color and unique brush strokes instead of...

Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was born in 1923 in New York City where he lived most of his life of 74 years.  Although he loved to draw, his High School didn’t offer art classes  so he would draw during his free time.  After high school he studied art at Ohio State...
Maya | Extrusion Tools

Maya | Extrusion Tools

Using several website tutorials and class instruction students will understand how to navigate the various menus and shelves to access the different tools in Maya. The tutorials provided below will guide students through the foundation skills of extruding 3...
Bird Vectors

Bird Vectors

Birds have been the study of many artists throughout history, most notably the artist John J. Audubon. Audubon was a renown ornithologist who became famous for his extensive study of North American birds and the detailed illustrations that depicted birds in their...