Dabbling in many mediums, I enjoy it all. Just like the music I listen to. I enjoy computers, oils, acrylics, pastels. I really like it all. In most recent years, I have found computers to be one of my favorites. The music business is so fast paced now that any other medium than a computer would be virtually impossible. Today everything is done on computers and sent via internet. It is just the way it is. In the older days we would send in a painting, wait for a board meeting. Get a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Then photograph. and so forth. I still enjoy painting and drawing and spread my time out as much as possible. It is a lot of fun with computers now adays However, we are at the infancy of a new medium and all of the new boundaries and technologies with possibilities, it is truly amazing. A new medium doesn't come around too often if you think of it. Oils have been around for thousands of years, acrylic a 100 or so, which is really not so much a new medium as it is an emulation of oils. Computer art at most has been around 15 years. Each year it becomes more an more like a natural medium. Now a day it is a key part of design, Composition and more. Melding it with " traditional" mediums has be a great inspiration. One thing is certain however I never forget my roots. Roots run deep and are the essence of what I am and do.

Story Telling as an illustrator is a passion that drives me and drives me stronger as any other muse. It has been the inspiration from as early as I can recall.  The more I read and the more I saw, the more I absorbed. I was introduced to Fantasy by reading J.R.R. Tolkien at the age of 12, which opened up all the possibilities. Telling the stories or illustrating the stories was my escape.  A place I could tell the wildest of tales. It let me enter a reclusive, self absorbed world of my own. Then came Rock-n Roll... As a teen I sat back and was in complete awe of the Album art. That was it!! That is all I wanted to do. I knew it like, love at first site. Rodger Dean and the unparallel YES album covers, Led Zeppelin Physical graffiti, Uriah Heap, The Grateful Dead.  As I went off to school to emulate the masters of the tabletop painting and went to learn technical skills- Guess what? They came out with CDs?? What the????? ? Change of plans... wasn't sure what, but a 12in. x 12in format with flaps and gadgets were a thing of the past. No one seemed to care what was on a CD Cover. Eventually, I found myself on the road with the Grateful Dead touring in a van selling posters of my art along the way. iT WAS an entire world that still fasinates and captivates me. I would have never dreamed I would actually end up working for them. My main concern was to stay out of trouble and make it to the next show. Leaving for the Art Institute of Atlanta in 1983, introduced me to the technical aspects  of  commercial art and illustration. One thing lead to another and the rest is history.