standards and show tunes

Bible and Tony Hillerman

old movies

There are no blogs submitted!

View All Entries

It's all about Him - Doxology - some side items - Drawing during childhood mirrored my heavy interest in automobiles and aircraft. I studied drafting and while in school worked as a draftsman for the university. Though focused on avionics during my Air Force service, I frequently helped out on projects requiring presentation graphics. The same comment applies to my career in aerospace engineering.
My first serious fine art training was obtained under the teaching of Walfrido Garcia in the San Francisco Bay Area with whom I studied for three years in the nineteen eighties. The sea was our focus and it continues to be a central interest for me to this day. With the advent of digital photography and moving to the Sierras, sunsets have been a key involvement. Walking the family corgi “Joey” in the evening provides ample opportunity to shoot Sun and cloud.
During the early days of our space program, I was a payload engineer specializing in planetary reconnaissance. This activity awakened interest in the wonders of the Universe. When I see images from today’s space telescopes and planetary visitor/orbiter systems fuel is added to the fire of artistic endeavor and all of my mixed media art materials receive good exercise. In this area, I also rely on my computer and the power of filters to transform thought into works depicting the splendor in unimagined realms. The more I study all of these wonders, the more I appreciate Creation. Flora and fauna are additional wonders that present significant challenges to ones artistic skills. So many things to study, photograph, sculpt, and paint; so little time.

All of God's wonderful Creation. Space, Sea, Landscapes, Sunsets, Corgis, Science, The Arts, Mountains, skiing, cars, airplanes.

Negativism, TV broadcast news media and most of non documentary TV.

Designing almost anything