About
Not too long ago, in a neighborhood not too far, far away lived a Southern California native ten year old kid. Ironically at the age of 10 I was just like any other goofy neighborhood kid, until one day in the summer of 1977, my Father took me to see a little unknown Sci-Fi movie at the Mission Valley Cinema called "STAR WARS" which will be a day long remembered" for it forever altered my desitiny and begged my poor Father to see it at least 10 more times, because he...was my only hope. Soon after I instinctively began drawing X Wings, Tie Fighters, Battle scenes and characters from the movie on any piece of paper I could get my hands on while escaping the adversities of the real world by creating my imaginary one which drove my nine siblings nuts! (yes, there's ten of us) I continued drawing throughout my preteens, high school and into my early twenties. Yet never took my art seriously, and gave it up for the next 20 years until the passing of my Father in 2006.
Sept 2006: Unaware to ease my grieving Mother and with only two days before my Father's services, I locked myself up with paper, pencil and began drawing a memorial portrait of my Dad to give to my Mother...she loved it. For the next four years I was drawing portaits for others who's lost their loved ones. During that period my drawings vastly improved with the help of better tools, materials and hundreds of hours of non-stop practice, patience and failures as I started working with other mediums: Charcoasl, Pastels and Cartooning which totally reignited my talent and love for Art to a more advanced point in my life.
March 2010: Curiousity got me to buy a few canvases, brushes, acrylic paints and began my painting journey by experimenting with the fine detail Art of "POINTILLISM" in which small, distinctive dots of color are applied in patterns to form a larger image created by Sir Georges Seurat in 1886. Within a year of enthusiastically developing this skill, I began noticing the results, as my painting style was evolving rapidly in my mission to apply the diligent style of the Old Master in today’s Pop Culture and Movie Icons for the next nine a year to employ a lost and dying art forms that require days, weeks or months to create a single work with an appetite for timeless methods of craft that require skill, knowledge and courage VS a now ridiculous microwave culture of Digital and Ai.
August 2019: Illustration is a type of “Line Art” that I've always secretly admired. Therefore created a few pieces just for fun...yet, ended up with an entire array of new artwork in my Illustration Series on this website: Note...all the work is done by hand (No digital or Ai) using basic tools on my canvases with T-Squares, French curves, straight edges, stencils, pinstriping and frog tape which is unusual from my more intricate detail style...it's nice to take a break from it : )
Present day: My work is recognized and appreciated at every Comic Conventions, Live Art exhibitions, Galleries, Group Art shows, Charity events, Auctions and Live Art demonstrations. I take my art very seriously, at the same time I'm a kid at heart because the child in me survived. It’s hard to say goodbye when original work is sold…but it also motivates me to create more because it’s never too late to do what you love : )
We laid our Mother to rest in 2024 (she was 95) with my Father and will love them forever.
