FINE ART
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 37 of them. Like most kids I filled doodled, colored, and painted and never stopped.
Having grown up in rural Ohio, my exposure to art was what I saw on tv and film, and read in newspaper comic strips. PBS programming was a huge influence. 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 illustration, airbrush, pencil and charcoal drawing, oil painting, and watercolor painting.
Through hours of en plein air painting and perspective drawing I have developed a visual library to create work that is both familiar and fantastical.
2026 Spring Show at the Gallery on First in Sanford, Florida.
Flatlands I. Ink & Watercolor on 5.83″ x 8.25″ Hahnemühle 100% cotton rag watercolor paper.
Flatlands II. Ink & Watercolor on 5.83″ x 8.25″ Hahnemühle 100% cotton rag watercolor paper.
Flatlands V. Ink & Watercolor. 2.75” x 2.75” Hahnemühle 100% mould-made watercolor paper.
Howell Creek. Ink & Watercolor. 3” x 2” Hahnemühle 100% mould-made watercolor paper.
Mead Pine V. Ink & Watercolor. 3” x 2” Hahnemühle 100% mould-made watercolor paper.
Mead Marsh. Ink & Watercolor. 2.75” x 2.75” Hahnemühle 100% mould-made watercolor paper.
Flatlands III. Ink & Watercolor. 2.75” x 2.75” Hahnemühle 100% mould-made watercolor paper.
Flatlands IV. Ink & Watercolor. 2.75” x 2.75” Hahnemühle 100% mould-made watercolor paper.
Mead Pine I. Ink & Watercolor. 2.75” x 2.75” Hahnemühle 100% mould-made watercolor paper.
Mead Pine II. Ink & Watercolor. 2.75” x 2.75” Hahnemühle 100% mould-made watercolor paper.
Mead Pine III. Ink & Watercolor. 2.75” x 2.75” Hahnemühle 100% mould-made watercolor paper.
Mead Pine IV. Ink & Watercolor. 2.75” x 2.75” Hahnemühle 100% mould-made watercolor paper.
