The Lady in Purple Photograph

This artist has had an early start at drawing and painting mainly because his father was a hand painted commercial signwriter and master gold leaf letterer. At age 13 I began oil paintings with an easel, new brushes and oil paints. Through the school years I have worked with pencil, charcoal, watercolors, pen and ink, acrylics and oils. Later the addition of airbrushes, gold leaf and sandblasting wood & glass have added to the artwork collection. The newest paintings are a decoupage style [ wet on wet and layered ] that is a little bit different and sometimes very wild. I enjoy painting mountains and water, faces, animals, abstracts and space pictures. Photography is another big hobby and I always try to get as many local country western and wildlife pictures as I can before old barns or buildings actually fall down or the landscape changes.