You are listening to the Sabby Painter Podcast, episode number 13.

Welcome to the Sabby Painter Podcast, the podcast for artists who mean business.

Here's your host, Antrice Wood.

Hey, it's Antrice here and welcome to another edition of the savvy painter

podcast. Gabor Zabor Zabor is my guest today.

Gabor is a plain air landscape painter and he's also the founder of the Tucson Art Academy online.

So welcome Gabor. Tell me a little bit about where you're from and how you got started as an artist.

Well, thanks, and Tries for having me on your podcast here.

Well, I was born in Hungary, Europe, and we moved my family, immigrated here in 1983 to the States because it was

still communism there, so my dad decided to move the whole family. And I went to the whole family and I went to the American Academy of Art in Chicago. I

studied there for three years and I was fortunate. I was just I locked out in a way because I didn't know much about art education and how fortunate I was.

I thought all painters went to art school and I found that that's not so. So I was there for three years and that's

for Richard Schmid, Scott Burdick, Sioux Lion, Dan Gerhart, I mean you go on and on some wonderful artists have come through the academy.

And you know I was thrown through the wolves just like everybody else you know after art school and you have to kind of figure out your way and I well at the academy I I wanted to do what was advertising, but then there was a watercolor instructor.

His name was Irving Shapiro, who was a professional.

That was so great about the academy that you had professional artists working and teaching and he was a nationally recognized watercolor painter and instructor so when I saw his painting

that's that's why I want to do.

And I kind of really changed my course to what, you know, the direction that I went

to my grandmother actually at my mother's side.

I got a backtrack a little bit here.

She always loved the art so she painted and in Hungary.

So before we left I, you know, I spent a lot of times with my grandparents and I always...

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