At the new KOSART ATELIER website, you will find course schedule, class and workshop descriptions, enrollment information, gift certificate options, class pictures, and more!
J. Anthony Kosar is an award-winning artist who specializes in Fine Art, Illustration, Sculpture, Creature Design, Make-up FX, and Product Design through his company Kosart Effects Studios, LLC. In 2007, he interned at legendary Stan Winston Studio creating effects for INDIANA JONES 4 and James Cameron's AVATAR, and studied sculpture under world-renowned creature designer Jordu Schell. Kosar designs and sculpts Halloween masks for Zagone Studios, one of the leading mask manufacturers in the world. Besides FX, Kosar is an internationally awarded fine artist and illustrator. He designs and sculpts prototypes for toys, collectibles and medical anatomical models, illustrates for novels and comic books, and creates fine art paintings and sculptures. Kosar was Valedictorian of the class of 2008 at the American Academy of Art in Chicago, IL where he earned his BFA in Illustration. View his portfolio: HERE
Serving all artistic needs, Kosart Effects Studios, LLC is dedicated to quality Fine Art, Illustration, Graphic Design, Storyboards, Concept Art, Sculpture, Creature FX, Special FX Make-up, Masks, Props for:
PUBLISHING Illustrated Novels, Book Covers, Comic Books, Children’s Books, Editorial Print, etc.
ENTERTAINMENT Film, Television, Theater, Gaming, & Haunt/Halloween
PRIVATE COLLECTORS Original Fine Art, Prints, Sculpture, etc.
EDUCATION Classes, Workshops & Demonstrations
Despite the familiar connotation of the word “effects,” the name “KOSART Effects” not only encompasses Kosar's alter ego of special effects, but also of all his art and everything that he is. The word “effect” means “end result” and “the extent to which something succeeds.” In a way, “KOSART Effects” is more of a promise to himself and to the world, a promise best said in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,“So much has been done. More, far more, will I achieve; treading in the footsteps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.”