Tuesday 24 July 2012

Portrait Drawings

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Portrait Drawings Biography
A native of Atlanta, Jim Schell is a self-taught painter. His first job as an artist was drawing for the old Atlanta Georgian newspaper at the age of 12. When he was 14, he studied for a summer at the Detroit Art Academy under the director Carlos Lopez, a muralist-painter. Mr. Schell later became an illustrator on Pacific Stars and Stripes in World War II.

When he returned to Atlanta he co-founded Kirkland, White, and Schell Advertising Agency, receiving numerous national and regional awards for illustration and design. In 1982, he retired to devote his time to oil portraits, many of which have appeared on the cover of Business Atlanta and in American Artist Magazine.

Mr. Schell's art combines masterful drawing with a wonderful sense of color and design. With confidence that comes from many years of experience, he captures the essence of the model's likeness on canvas with a light sketching of charcoal and sure use of color in his brushwork.


Jim Schell is a highly honored member of the Portrait Society of Atlanta where he is a Member of Excellence and an Advisory Board Member. He has also been a member of the Abernathy Arts Center teaching staff for over 20 years. Jim continues to inspire and motivate his students, many of whom are already accomplished painters.
Robert Schoeller's art is timeless. From a very early age, this internationally celebrated artist intuitively recognized and loved the special qualities that make certain pieces of fine art so exceptional--the purity, intensity and emotional content that make a powerful, lasting impact in the viewer--elements that Schoeller later came to recognize in the artworks of classic masters.

Today, Schoeller has emerged as a modern classic in his own right because he has created a unique style that evokes the straight-forward quality and techniques embodied in the works of such figures as Rembrandt, DaVinci, Velasquez, Goya and Titian. However, while reflecting an affinity with these great artists, Schoeller brings something extra to his own works to generate maximum impact on the canvas and inspire the viewer each time they look at them. His aesthetic sensibilities for the use of space and the arrangement of objects in a painting, the dynamics he creates with light and shadow, his appreciation for beauty, and his unique ability to paint more than just what he sees all enable him to create art in a manner that emanates the same elusive quality of the classics, while keeping his own paintings totally original.

Robert Schoeller was born and raised in a small Austrian village on the Danube. At the age of three, he "discovered" art through his mother's accomplished paintings. Attracted by their beauty and colors, he showed an interest in painting on his own and was encouraged to do so. At one point, Schoeller's mother gave him a book with pictures of the world's greatest paintings, which fascinated him. Even at his early age, he was drawn to certain paintings which had a special quality that made them more aesthetic, inspirational, beautiful and exciting--qualities that he feels are lost to a great degree in our time. He constantly studied and copied the images from the book as a child and, although long since lost, his fascination with those images remain and he still considers that book his "bible" of art.

Finishing high school at age 15, Schoeller's talent earned him acceptance into a famous art school in Linz, to pursue university-level instruction in preparation for a career in art. However, he did not care for the focus on modern styles of art and chose instead to create his own paintings and engravings, which combined realism with fantasy. And, he was rewarded at his first school art show when people bought his etchings and paintings as fast as he put them up.
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