Tolkien, Middle-Earth: Journeys in Myth and Legend from Dark Horse Comics. Pilgrimages to major museums are his preferred reason to travel.ĭonato has released a revised hard cover compilation of his works on the theme of J.R.R. He continues his training even now, visiting museums regularly, learning from and sometimes copying original paintings by Rembrandt or Rubens, attending life drawing sessions with illustrator friends and constantly challenges himself within each new project. It was then that his love and appreciation of classical figurative art took hold. In Florida, where half the action takes place, skies are gray, swollen with clouds that. Formative years in the early nineties were spent as the studio assistant to the preeminent figure painter Vincent Desiderio, and long days of study in the museums of New York. Boyle’s latest novel is darkly ironic: There are no blue skies in Blue Skies. Immediately after graduating Summa Cum Laude with a BFA in Painting from Syracuse University in 1992, Donato moved to New York City to immerse himself in the inspired and varied art scene.

At the age of twenty Donato enrolled in his first formal art class, the beginning of his professional training. His love of imaginative play dominated his childhood, both indoors and out. Born in 1967 and raised in Colchester, Vermont, USA, art was always a hobby for Donato as a young man, he would steal away into the basement of his parents' home to work on drawings, create his own maps for the game Dungeons & Dragons, paint figurines, read comics, and construct model tanks and dinosaurs.

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