Biography

Chester Collom was born in Glendale, Califonia on August 6, 1927. "Chet" Collom received his art training at the School of Allied Art in Glendale and the Chouinard Art Institute. He currently lives in Panorama City, California. He is a member of the Los Angeles Art Association.

After supporting himself as a milkman and working as an apprentice in his father's print shop, he became an illustrator after World War II. Collom attended at the Glendale School of Allied Arts where he learned anatomy, perspective, painting, and virtually all the basics he still teaches to this day. His motto: "You have to know the rules before you're allowed to disobey them."

Collom started his own art studio in Los Angeles while running errands for many other art studios; this gave him the opportunity to learn about the commercial field. He eventually ended up at Stevens Biondi diCicco, one of the top studios in the 1950s. Then he continued as a freelance illustrator in the 1960s painting covers for paperback book and movie one-sheet lobby posters.

In the early 1970s, Collom opened a gallery on Ventura Boulevard where he taught, sold paintings, and continued his commercial work and fine art. Simultaneously he began studying fine art with the famous Russian painter Serge Bongard
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