BIOGRAPHY 2015
Donna Barhite, Artist
I've had an interest in art since early childhood. I was mainly self-taught until 1968, when I spent the summer in Chicago, Illinois, studying Fashion Illustration and Commercial Art at the Ray Vogue Art School. Having dabbled in portrait sketching prior to this, I was privileged to be able to sign up with Sylvania, Ohio artist, Walter Chapman, with whom I studied for nearly 20 years. Wanting to learn the correct way to paint portraits, Chapman started me with the basics, and that was all it took for me to realize I'd found my niche in the art...more
