Author/Illustrator Mike Venezia has been getting to know the world's greatest artists for as long as he can remember.
A graduate of The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Mike belives the best way to introduce kids to art and artists is through fun. If kids can look at art in a fun. If kids can look at art in a fun wqy, and think of artists as real people, the exctiting world of art will be open to them for the rest of their lives. Mike lives in a Chicago suburb with his wife, Jeannine, and children Michael Anthony and Elizabeth Ann.
After hundreds of years, Mike, like Giotto, has added a whole new dimension to the world of painting by infusing a variety of powerful scents into his paint. Mike has come up with Aroma Art. This breakthrough technique allows a painting of any subject to smell like itself.