- Porcelain Art School Amarillo, Texas
The Campana Art School is the Best in Texas!
We pride ourselves on providing all the services under one roof.
We work with the most amazing teachers who help our incredible students develop their skills and techniques.
Year after Year our classes fill up and typically have a waiting list.
Don’t wait to sign up, once our classes are full, they are full!
Our all inclusive learning environment includes Hotel Stay, Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, and your Teacher of Choice.
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Mom & I started the Campana Art Company in 1998. The idea was simple, bring in the best artists, offer the best overall learning environment, and help & encourage all involved.
For over 20 years we have continued to grow and develop into one of the best schools available. I am proud to continue this effort on behalf of my mom. This is her legacy.
We encourage you to join in this amazing environment and either teach, learn, or a little of both!
At Campana Art Company – You are Welcome Anytime!
There is scarcely a china painter who does not know the name of D.M. Campana for it has been one of the most prominent in the field for well over half a century. Mr. Campana founded the Campana Art Company at the turn of the century with china painting materials as its specialty. Has developed his own line of excellent china colors which he used in painting all his fine works and which are sold with his name exclusively.
Marostca, Italy, a town near Venice, was his birthplace. Working in nearby ceramic factories as a child, he learned to decorate pottery, a skill which brought him ready employment when, in his early twenties, he migrated to America—with ten dollars in his pocket. In a few years, he had saved enough money to go back to Venice for training at the Academy di Belle Arti.
His studies completed, he returned to the United States, immediately establishing a reputation as a china painter and teacher of the art in Chicago. His own work was pictorial, in the manner of an oil painting on canvas. Human figures and faces, sometimes painted on out-sized china forms ranging from plaques two feet in diameter to vases four feet high, were his favorite subjects.
“…T is the strongest work of the kind yet established here,” commented the Chicago Tribune in 1901. “It dwarfs pitifully… the other figure subjects…His brush are broad, his draughtsman ship excellent, and his color satisfying…”
He won many medals and prizes for his most unusual approach in this medium. His method of painting was to apply the basic colors to be used without detail and fire the piece at about 1400 F, then alternately to add more color and fire until he had the results he wanted. Reds were left until the last so there would be no chance of diminishing the strength of the color through repeated firings.
Mr. Campana died at the age of eighty-five in December, 1956. His memory lives on in his many fine works and in the over fifty books which he wrote on art instruction in every field. These books are found the world over and have helped many an aspiring artist to the road of success. We, of the D.M. Campana Art Co., are pledged to carry on with the high quality standards which he so stressed in his lifetime.
