I’m often asked how long a piece takes to complete. While I often know the hours infvolved in a piece. I have another answer; years. Over 35 of them. Like most kids I doodled, colored, and painted. I just never stopped.

Having grown up in rural ohio, my exposure to art was what I saw on tv and film, or came across in newspaper comic strips. PBS programming was an huge influence on me as a kid. Especially the tv programs of Bob Ross and Mark Kistler.

In high school I continued to develop my drawing skills using pencil, pastels, charcoal, and india ink. This continued while earning my BFA in Visual Communcation and Design. While at Indiana/Purdue University Fort Wayne I took courses in pen and ink illustration, airbrush, pencil and charcoal drawing, oil painting, and watercolor painting.

Through hours of en plein air painting and perspective drawing I developed a visual library to create imagined landscapes in ink and watercolor.