Maria Pacca "When it comes to Art...I just do it! Talking about it breaks the visual spell for me...I do like to share ideas about techniques, but not about the inspiration – that is a very private matter!" says Maria Pacca, an international artist from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Maria came to the US with her family and in 1972, she received her BA in Fine Arts from Cal State Long Beach. She further pursued her art career at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. Maria has traveled to fourteen countries and lived in Guatemala, Brazil, Hawaii and now in Colorado. In Hawaii, she studied watercolor with Chinese master, Waihang Lai and in Colorado, oils with master painter Martha Mans.
A vigorous artist, Maria Pacca has explored various media to express her creativity, including sculpture, drawing and painting. "I started out drawing the figure and it has remained my favorite activity. Drawing the human figure is a wonderful challenge and it combines all the elements of art: line, shape, design, light, shadow, etc. However, living in all these colorful places: Brazil, Guatemala, Hawaii and now Colorado, inspires me to use color unabashedly...so my paintings of landscapes are needless to say...colorful." ... To continue click 'Read Bio'
Chronicles: This Day in Art History Cartoon Classic On May 9, 1754 the first cartoon appeared in "The Pennsylvania Gazette", the newspaper published at the time in Philadelphia, PA, Benjamin Franklin?s hometown.
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