A lot of artists create work and take it out in search of a
buyer.
While a lot of my work is created that way my most
successful operating basis has been to find what clients need and want
and then produce that art expressly for that particular
client.
So, whether you're looking for the
perfect art
to use on your website, illustrations for your current book
or
have a glorious painting in mind for your home, then please read on
!
I live and work in a great little place called Yankeetown on the banks of the
Withlacoochie river,
north of Crystal River, Florida.
Where is your Gallery?
I get asked that a lot. "Oh you're an artist?"
" Where's your gallery ?"
I don't keep a traditional visitation gallery
because that
requires someone in attendance at very fixed hours -- and I usually
work
at all sorts of different times, frequently in the
quiet time when most other people around are asleep. So,
that's not for
me.
But who knows. Make my stuff popular enough and
I'll get
someone to hang it full time somewhere.
What do you do?
I never settled upon a single medium, like painting, or
carving as I think I'd get bored doing the same thing all the
time.
I have been an active artist all my life so I carve, I do
calligraphy,
graphic design, cartooning and illustration. I
paint in oil, acrylic,
watercolor and
for the last few years -- electrons.
I trained early on as a draftsman and as an illustrator. I
spent
several years in the historic restoration of a classic
1927 hotel where I made hundreds of architectural
detail
drawings & artist renderings for the
designs of the
interiors, landscaping and structurals.
"I can REALLY have you do my art ?!"
I'm always tickled when a prospective client realizes what I can do for
them and that I really am affordable. They get so excited !
It's such a cool thing to be able to HAVE art.
It is
something that is unique and completely done for you alone.
Surprisingly, most people I talk with have a consideration
that they can't afford to hire an artist ! So
it
never
occurs to them that they could own art themselves.
But just think: What physical things really could have a more
positive effect upon your personal attidudes and feelings in life than
art ??
Your project
Imagine actually having the idea you have brought into being.
Having it created just for you.
It's worth checking out
I'm probably one of the more unique artists you'll
find
because of my wide variety of media and experience. Some
projects
use several at once, drawing from my background in building
and
restorations, photography and drafting. Some
involve a feel
for classic proportion, colors and calligraphy.
