Clare Villanti received a B.A. in fine art at the University of Maryland in 1976 but has been drawing since the age of four years. Before the advent of computer graphics she earned a living as a technical illustrator, but in 1991 she began her own portrait service working solely in graphite and then eventually included color work in the medium of chalk pastel. Working from separate photographs of subjects, Clare has brought members of families across generations together into the same portrait as well as collages of individuals. In conjunction with her portrait service, she has also been a...more
