When I found Fitto’s web site on the Internet I was blown away and found there was an artist in the shop who was painting with
by to quality of his work and how original and fresh the designs an airbrush.
where so I contacted him hoping to bring you this article. I hope Two weeks later this shop (Le Superock) called me to set up an
you enjoy reading about one of the true masters in the airbrush- appointment to check out my airbrushing skills. At that time I
ing, custom painting world, Fitto. I have to thank Patrick Cha-
had done only four or five airbrush projects. Well I got the job
ruel for helping with this as Fitto is French Canadian and I do
and I’ve worked behind the window of this shop in the city cen-
not speak French so Patrick was kind enough to help out.
tre for two years. During this time I did coats for Iron Maiden
Fitto’s Bio:
and Metallica bands. By seeing that nothing will evolve for me
I was born in Chicoutimi, a little town in the north of Quebec. I
in that work, I’ve decided to create my own business.
lived on a small farm in the countryside; my closets neighbor is
I went about doing a lot of shows and I have quickly found many
over 2 kilometers away.
customers with custom cars and bikes. After two years I left the
I’ve have always drawn, from primary school to today. My en-
reproduction paint jobs to do exclusively original creations.
tire school notebook was full of imaginative drawings. I’ve been
I’ve changed my advertising card “Airbrush Fitto creation or re-
lucky to always had good friends many of whom grace many
production according to your taste “ to “Airbrush Fitto psychia-
of my drawings. I think I can say that even when I was very a
trist airbrushopath exclusive creations.
young man I already had a strange and special creativity, I was
I believe that with computers to reproduce art works the future
already a marginal kid and I felt myself as a off kid. From sec-
was for me was in the creation of original artwork. It was the
ondary school I have hundreds of drawings, which were done
pastel color period and linear multicolor designs; I imposed my
during my regular school classes. In structured art classes, I was
psychedelics creations and Gothic’s. At the beginning, my com-
not very good because I didn’t follow the rules and did anything
petitors laughed of my style but a few years later, they copied
I wanted.
my creations or they did artwork greatly inspired by mine.
When I was 18, I moved to the Montreal area where I went to art
My true fire and my morbid paintings where I mix 3D and or-
school to improve what I call “my plastic art knowledge”.
ganic effect helped me to become known. I became known in
I didn’t like or fit well in this school, my concepts and ideas
the rest of Canada, USA and Europe before my artwork was
where always very contrary to most of what was being taught
really appreciated in Quebec.
and I was unable to tolerate the mentality which consist of al-
Thanks to everyone one who trust me and give me their confi-
ways following the last fashion, everybody had to have the same
dence to do my first orders.
way of thinking and had to accept everything. But I have to ad-
mit that these structured art studies have helped me to open my
mind. At that time, I had never used an airbrush.
I’ve tried to find a job in the art field but the employers found
me too much rock ‘n’ roll and told me that I will have to find
my own way.
After that I trained in soldering and the metal field. It’s during a
soldering theory course that a fellow student saw my drawings
and proposed that I paint his Jeep bonnet.
I went out to buy the basic medium quality airbrush stuff and
started to write on a piece of paper the way I’d follow to do
achieve this project. When this first job was completed I was
very exited because the result was really better than I could ex-
pect. After that, I’ve bought a Chevy Van, restored and airbrush
it. At about this same time I also did a leather coat. A fiend
of mine introduced me to a leather coat maker and I did some
samples he really liked, but I was quickly disappointed when I
saw that the artwork was to be mass-produced and not one off
custom pieces.
Shortly after that while driving in my car during the winter with
the temperature at -25°, I stopped in a Rock shop to warm up
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