About the Artist
Although I grew up in Cape May, New Jersey, Florida has been my home now for over 13 years.
I have always drawn, it's what I like to do the most. Usually one of my graphite drawings take over 20 hours to do. The drawings with colored pencil take considerably longer to finish and the pen & ink pointalisim take even longer (up to 300+ hours).
I don't have any formal art training. I took advanced art in high school, but have no college experience. We were encouraged in high school art classes to draw pictures from magazines. It was then that I realized that I had a knack for faces, especially faces from pictures. I then branched out into doing pencil portraits from photos (those were the first pieces of art I made money from). These days I do mostly celtic designs. I really enjoy them.
After high school I started dabbling in just about every medium. I tried painting, which on canvas as it turns out, I am not very good at. However, I did convince a friend of mine's parents to let me try a mural on one of the walls in their house (pretty trusting of them if you ask me, as I'd never painted a mural before).
I also enjoy photography. I started out taking reference photos, then did some head shots for a friend. That blossomed into head shots for other people, to engagement photos and then to weddings.
I taught myself some basic web design and programming in order to create an online portfolio and have since designed many other sites. I design all my web sites with Macromedia Dreamweaver and Photoshop.
Some Great Links:
- Want to learn website design? Web Monkey is a great place to start.
- Need some cool free fonts? Check out Da Font.
- Looking for cool web site effects? Dynamic Drive
- Cheap stock photography and designs? IStockPhotos.com
- Where to register domain names? GoDaddy
- Where to host? Netfirms
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