Like
many artist it took awhile to find the right direction for me
to go with my art. I always showed artistic talent from an early
age with my first inspirations being the comic book art that I
collected as a boy especially the Sgt. Rock cover art of Joe Kurbert.
I knew I wanted to be an artist when I grew up. As far as painting
goes I would say I did my first probably around 10th grade.
When I was in my early 20's I was in my first serious relationship
with a girl that first exposed me to the possibilities of UV florescent
paint. When the relationship ended I did what I would call my
first real original art with the completion of my first blacklight
painting. I had painted before, but never under blacklight and
never as an expression of feeling and thought. It was a moment
of discovery for me, and the start in finding my own unique style
which I call "Psychedelic Surrealism".
Below is the first series of blacklight paintings I did in my
first studio, which was my bedroom. The room was all king size
waterbed, but there was a small space at the foot where I could
lean an easel against my closet door. As a consequence my first
works are small 16"x20" canvases since there was not
much room to work. Eventually I moved out of that room into a
bigger studio to work, but those early days will always be a special
time to me.
I
didn't realize it at the time, but all this would lead to my artwork
getting published in the mid 1990's and selling over a 1/4 million
copies of my work all over the world in places like Spencer's
Gifts.
If
you would like to know my full story please visit "My Artist
Story" on my Facebook artist page:
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