Biggest Artistic Inspiration:
My Mom and Dad, Family and Friends are my biggest artistic inspiration.
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Why Did You Become An Artist:
The reason I became an artist is to be an inspiration to others. Its not easy to decipher optical illusions of dyslexia and color blindness but it can be done.
Personal Biography
From drawing a paper Halloween skeleton displayed on a second floor of a two story apartment in complete detail at the age of 4 and doing masterpieces at the age of 63.
It seemed at a young age I have the ability to create though innovation, imagination and insight. Maybe I never finished my goals from my previous life, to be reincarnated into this Life for more time.
I was a very shy 6 year old starting my education at the Grade-School in Dillard, Oregon 1965.
In the morning when I came to school, I didn’t like to be outside with the other kids so the Teacher’s let me in the classroom to play the piano. This was my every morning routine.
Mr. Town my 5th grade teacher 1969 We were all entered in a Health Safety Poster Contest, it was only if we wanted to enter. My poster was a painting of a pack of cigarettes with a skull, I won first place That Christmas Mom and Dad bought me a complete oil paint set and canvases before that all I did was draw
My inspiration was my Family, and Dorothy the owner of The Art Mill, dad took me there for art supplies
Growing up it was much easier to keep to myself to paint and create.
My accomplishments through the passing of time
Many commissions of portraits, landscapes, Glow in the dark paintings, murals, mixing cremation ashes into paintings of people and pets for a memorial heirloom, masking-tape sculptures, creating original production music,
TV Show, “Learn How to Paint in Acrylic” Oregon Public Broadcasting, Comcast Cable Channel 29, Xfinity Channel 1088 creating over 50 Episodes.
Future shows coming soon featuring paintings, masking-tape sculptures and music. The show is titled “The Art Show Collection”