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New York City's portrait painter extraordinaire - Antony Zito - is now available creating his famous "7 Minute Watercolor Portraits" live at your event. Caricatures are wonderful and fun in their cartoon style but there is nothing quite like a true likeness - a true essence - captured by a fine art portraitist like Zito. His paintings are not cartoons but rather - as NY Arts Magazine has recognized - "a sublime reflection of the sitter's being". And he does it all this in 7 minutes!

An established portrait artist, Zito loves to paint and especially enjoys working in public creating these brilliantly colored quick-draw depictions of party goers. In the summer of 2007, Zito's Portrait Painting Marathon hit the streets of Manhattan's Lower East Side in which he stayed up round the clock painting over 100 Watercolor Portraits in a 40-hour stretch. For live events Zito works primarily with Watercolor on paper but if you visit his website (www.zitogallery.com) you will see that he is willing to paint on absolutely anything - from t-shirts to canvas, from wood to glass, from garbage cans to headboards. Have a look below to see what people are saying about Zito and do the smart thing - give your guests a bit of Personalized Fine Art and Downtown New York History while its still affordable. Who knows how long an artist like Zito will be available in this fashion?!

"Zito can capture your essence by painting for several minutes more effectively than more formal and pretentious artists can do by fussing on a canvas for weeks. A genius!"
-- Michael Musto, Village Voice

"Zito is able to use his substantial skill as a painter to navigate the tricky landscape between capturing a likeness, unveiling the sitter's character... creating a portrait that borders more on a sublime reflection of the sitter's being than 'Hey, great, that looks like me'."
-- NY Arts Magazine

"The downtown demimonde turned out... spent the evening literally watching paint dry as downtown artist Zito whipped out amazing 7-minute portraits of the party guests. Snapper extraordinaire [Patrick] McMullan purchased his likeness on the spot."
- - Page Six, NY Post

"Antony Zito painted a cool, realistic portrait of myself that I felt compelled to buy on the spot.(I don't even like looking at myself either) did I mention he did it in about 7 minutes because there is no way I could sit any longer. The best quick portrait painter in the business, with an amazing artistic flair. This guy is amazing."
-- Patrick McMullan, Celebrity Photographer

"Zito is one of my very favorite New York artists, partly because he thinks of himself as an artisan (he likes to make paintings on commission) and partly because he's just a really fine and inventive painter. I have two of his paintings, one is a portrait of Lee Marvin (commissioned for my film COFFEE AND CIGARETTES) and one of the Ethiopian master musician Mulatu Astatke (commissioned for my film BROKEN FLOWERS). I value them greatly. I hope for a few more in the future. Hats off to Zito!"
-- Jim Jarmusch, Director

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Among other cities, Zito Studio Gallery may serve the following areas: New York, New York City, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Flushing, Jamaica, Bronx, Staten Island, Yonkers, White Plains, Long Island City, Far Rockaway, Astoria, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Bayside, Chestnut Ridge, East Elmhurst, Kew Gardens, Pleasantville, Queens Village, Boulevard, Croton on Hudson, Douglaston, Eastchester, Elmhurst, Floral Park, Fresh Meadows, Little Neck, Ozone Park, Ridgewood