About the artist..... Normally, I would rather talk about art, than myself, however many fans have asked that I write a little something about myself.  I will attempt to do that here, as well as explain some of what I do, in creating my artwork.

My Motto:  "Art is Freedom".

 Nothing in my life has given me more pleasure and more reward than creating works of art.  I was for certain one of those kids in High School you would find hanging around the art wing whenever I had the chance, and forgetting what time it was when I was supposed to be in another class.   Granted, my skill in those days was not painting or drawing, but sculpture, working in clay and fascinated by the Kiln.  Still, paint had its lure, and I hung around so much some of my friends would comment when we went out that I still had the distinct "aroma" about me of tempera paint, glue, and clay.

 Then, life happened.   It tends to do that, and earning a living came first, trying to scrape by.   Art sadly, went by the wayside as I delved into several careers, including auto mechanics, and even as an emergency switchboard operator.   A sales clerk, an accountant, a housekeeper, and even a delivery driver.  During this time, I somehow "forgot" that I liked art, that I could create art, and it seemed unimportant.   What  a fool I had been.   Still, sometimes one must shuffle and sort priorities, and so, my old tools for creating things of beauty got covered in dust, stored away, and forgotten.

 I got married, had two daughters, and then one fateful day, a friend of mine asked if I knew anyone who could make a logo for their business web-page.  They were pretty poor in the pocket, I was familiar with that mode of being, so decided that I would take a crack at making one for them.   To be honest, before this my "drawing" had only been a few doodles on binders at school, I was a sculptor after all, but I thought I could manage it.    It came out pretty good, and I surprised myself, and it kicked off a desire for me to go to the local store for a sketch pad and a mechanical pencil.  Around this time, is when the computer came into my house, and the world of the internet, and digital media seemed to be just starting out.   Some of you remember "those days", paying for internet access by the minute!  The computer was a foreign object to me, but curiosity got the best of me, and I learned to take my sketches down to Kinko's, scan them, bring them back on a floppy disk, and play around with coloring them in on "Windows Paint".

 From that tiny beginning, exploded a side of me I'd never knew existed.   The desire to not only learn new technologies, but grasp them, but happily exploit them to my delicious purpose of creating artwork.  Those simple sketches became more elaborate, detailed, as I learned what I was doing, and the programs got better, resembling more closely traditional art media.   My father, one birthday, gave me a gift of a Wacom tablet so I didn't have to digitally paint with a mouse, and my world changed forever.

 I love traditional art.  I love digital art.   I love to marry them both in a lover's embrace of delight.  I have learned and use programs such as Maya, Poser, Paint Shop Pro, Inkscape, Terragen, Gimp, and a host of others.   Sometimes I sketch out rough line drawings, scan them, and then digitally paint them.  Other times, I do traditioal water colors, acrylics and oil paint.   Sometimes I will use Poser or Maya as a base element for figure creation, and then place those renders into Photoshop and hand paint in exquisite details.  There is no art media I will not use, nor any art media that I will not attempt.  It is a joy to me, and I gladly lose myself to it, whenever I have the chance.

I happily embrace my fate, that whatever technology and the artwork bring in the future, I am ready and more than willing to jump on its tail and chase it, riding it down for all time.   Art is freedom...... and I am blessedly Free.  In the realm of my studio, nothing can hold me down.