I grew up in El Toro CA. My mother tells that I have been drawing since I was 9 years old I didn't feel like a real artist until the mid '80s when I left El Toro, and moved north to Sonoma County. My uncle bought me my first airbrush and turned me on to the artworks of Stanley Mouse, Andalton Kelley, Richard Ash, Pat Ryan, Don Delew and Nat Quick. I was really inspired by there full color t-shirts and monster calendars, and sharp images began airbrushing. Sometimes four to five hours straight. I stayed with the technique for several years, then in the '90s I became interested in acrylic paints, I began painting acrylic on canvass, I am self taught and have had no formal art lessons. My artwork is spontaneous, and I enjoy painting abstracts. I like to paint strange things to get people's attention. I love to sing my art work before I finish it. Things and places I've painted include shoes, pants, couches, pillow cases, ties, ceilings, Sammy Hagar's jacket, the bathroom at Johnny's Java in coffee house in Cotati, CA, t-shirts doors, wooden ducks, telephones, beads, and many other items too numerous to list.
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Wynton Marsalis - Painting Acrylic, 32"x32", 1998.
Violen - Tempera on Poster Board, 22"x28".
Enrico Rava - Painting Acrylic, 22"x 28", 1998.
Louis Armstrong - Painting Acrylic, 24" x 24", 1989.
My Jazz Ears Are Burning - Painting Tempera, 4'x4', 1996.
Caribien Blend - Tempera on Poster Board, 22" x 28", 1995.
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