Frequently Asked Questions

I've drawn or painted for as long as I can remember. At age six my Mom bought me a copy of "How to Draw the Marvel Way" and I've voracioiusly consumed art books ever since. I'm still grateful to John Buscema's book for teaching me perspective so young.

During college, I took a wonderful watercolor class at Jacksonville State University from Mr. Gee. It got me started painting in earnest and I later took Painting I at the University of Alabama. After college, I took a several drawing and painting courses at various Dallas community colleges. One class was taught by Dave Brown and he invited me to the Friday Night Life Drawing Group at Synapse Studios. I was a regular at the Friday night group, and eventually started my own weekly life drawing group in my own studio in Dallas, Three Martini Studios. The Sunday sessions to 8 hours and it helped my skill immensely. I was fortunate to have a great group of artists join me each week and we made art (and drank a few martinis) for over five years.

Steve Armes introduced me to landscape painting, and I took this up with my close friend John Kuehne. I always thought that landscape painting would be much easier than figure drawing and painting. I was proven dead wrong the first time I went out. I did some very, very bad paintings that year and the challenge inspired me. I read everything I could on landscape painting, with John Carlson's "Elementary Principles of Landscape Painting" as my bible. John and I went on many excursions and learned together, with a lot of help from Steve. Somewhere along the way I discovered that plein air painting was my passion and it surprised me greatly as it overtook what I thought was my number one passion of drawing the figure. I still love drawing and painting people and various other subjects. But my greatest pleasure is when I'm observing and expressing the wonderful environment that we live in, as best I can.

 Most of my work is done in plein air, or on location. This usually takes me anywhere from one to three hours, depending on the subject matter and other considerations. For example, this painting took just one hour. Architectural subjects will take a bit over three hours.
 

I like to spend as much time as I can painting or drawing the figure. I adjust my medium, design and technique on how much time I will have with the model.

Please allow three to four weeks. I will make every effort to have it available sooner. Contact me to ask about rush orders.

Yes. I put in a handwritten note with your order 'certifying' that you were there and part of the creative process. Contact me for details.

Yes! Email me with the piece you are talking about and I can add it to the gallery.

Bismarck

Absolutely. I respect those that do not agree with the Sierra Club's views and I'm sure we can find another charity we can both agree on. Just send me an email or make a note with your order with your favorite organizations and I'll work it out with you before processing your order.

Possibly. Contact me with what you have in mind and I'll respond as soon as I can.

Giclée (zhee-clay) n. 1. A method of fine art and photographic printmaking. 2. Most often associated with reproductions, a giclée is a print or multiple copy of an original work of art that was created by conventional means (painting, drawing, etc.) and then reproduced digitally via inkjet printing methods. In the case of digitally created artwork or photographs printed in this manner, each print can be considered an original, since nothing was copied to create the image. What distinguishes a giclée from other inkjet prints is that it must be printed using pigmented inks and onto museum-quality, archival fine art paper or canvas.