Sobre el Artista

I was sketching before I entered grade school,and was doing landscapes with colored pencils by age ten, and was dabbling in water color and oil paints by the time I entered high school. I majored in art at Grand Junction High School. I'm a graduate of Mesa Junior College (now Colorado Mesa University) majoring in Applied Arts. I served in the Army in South Korea during the Vietnam War. Following my discharge, I attended the University of Hawaii where I earned an Applied Arts degree and a Masters degree in Asian Art History. I married while in Hawaii, laid down my art brushes, picked up lettering brushes and worked as a commercial artist in Dallas, Texas. I had my own sign company, A&E Signs there for 15 years. I returned to my beloved Western Colorado and worked as a graphic designer at Pyramid Printing and AlphaGraphics until I retired. After a forty five year hiatus, and at the encouragement of a former college girlfriend, I picked up artist brushes and began painting again in November 2010. Much to my happy surprise, the paintings I have produced upon returning to art have been superior to those I produced before the hiatus. I primarily paint landscapes of actual places because I enjoy the challenge of attempting to copy the "Master" - the Artist of all creation, though the best of my work is but a dim reflection of His.