Jim Fitzpatrick

Jim Fitzpatrick, United States

I loved drawing as a kid but stopped for years. I'm self taught... I mainly do portraits. A few years back I started drawing again. Over the years I've held a wide variety of jobs and experiences. Shortly after high school, while attending SF State, I became the photographer for the professional wrestling promotion which regularly went into the Cow Palace. Shortly after that I started training to skate professional Roller Derby which was my true passion. I was first hired by them to work on the track crew which set up the large, portable banked track they skated on. Later I became a professional skater for the World Champion San Francisco Bay Bombers and skated in some amazing places like the Cow Palace in SF and as far away as Buenos Aires, Argentina and Tokyo Japan. After shoulder injuries ended my skating career I became a police clerk and then a police service technician. Later I became a fire inspector and then a fire fighter when the inspector job was eliminated due to budget cuts. For a while I was the Acting Deputy Fire Marshal. For a short while I was also a reserve cop. A few years before, during my skating days I worked part time at a health club as a fitness instructor and even helped ...