Tony corbitt jr

Florida native Tony Corbitt Jr is a self-taught representational artist with a 20+ year career in portraiture, still life, and plein air painting in both oil and watercolor. He believes realism should always be in service of communicating an emotional response to a subject. An avid outdoor enthusiast, Tony explores the world with sympathy and curiosity. He prefers working from life, which can be challenging and often unforgiving, but he feels the sense of immediacy it endows a work is invaluable and that painting from direct observation creates an intimacy between the subject and the artist. Along with his appreciation for the old masters and his fulfillment producing fine art works, Tony has had a lifelong interest in dinosaurs and other prehistoric wildlife and recently dipped his toe into paleoart. While his dinosaurs are painted from models and not from life, his paleoart backdrops are inspired by the present-day natural world.