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Traditional training - modern techniques

So much has changed in the decades since I was first given a Brownie camera and then learned to draw and paint. Eventually I owned dozens of brushes, paint tubes, easel and tabouret. The acrid smell of solvents and waiting days to have one layer dry enough to paint into or on it were unavoidable. I learned to clean my brushes in canola oil and bars of astringent soap. Even then a new brush was an investment that never lasted quite as long as I thought it should. I stretched my own canvases and learned the hard way that most people prefer standard sizes.

Computers were essential during my professional years; eventually their potential as a tool for art became obvious. Today I work with digital SLR cameras, electronically stabilized lenses, and electronic brushes on an Intuos 4 tablet. These are amazing technologies that didn't exist twenty years ago and they allow me to be more productive and to have more control over the final image!

My goal is to exceed your expectations!

Most of what I created was given away to family and friends. When one of my paintings was taken for framing it launched the next step to a gallery exhibit. Satisfied customers told their friends and now I'm a busy and happily productive artist. Hardwork suits me! There's always a camera at hand and I frame images in my mind’s eye even when there isn't. I walk to zoom and love the post production process too.

Sometimes I'm asked if my paintings are digitally enhanced photographs. I may begin with a photograph as reference because I don’t know your loved one as you do. But each stroke is individual and unique, mixed and applied brush stroke by brush stroke. There is no photograph left in the finished painting; it is fully this artist’s own expression and creative result.