Fast & Flexible: Use the Oil Painting Techniques You Already Know for Speed and Results
Chad Wooters is a graduate of the architecture program inspired by Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology. IIT s emphasis on expressing the inherent qualities of materials and the organic nature of design remains an influence in his work. In 1989, he began practicing architecture. Chad began professional development of his interest in the fine arts by learning printmaking techniques at the Harold Washington College in Chicago, under the instruction of Nelson Ghorbanian, he focused on copperplate engraving a medium of unforgiving exactness. He later refined his technique at Expressions Graphics, an Oak Park artist cooperative for printmakers. While working at Expressions Graphics, he studied traditional oil painting techniques under artist Dominic Vignola. He supplemented this formal training with additional lessons from artist Andy Conklin at the Palette and Chisel Academy in Chicago. Since then, Wooters has expanded his personal study of Old Master paintings, modern materials and the biology of human vision to build on the traditions of representational art. Chad Wooters currently practices art from his home and studio in Lombard, Illinois