A story.

I was always making art. As a boy I spent my time drawing, constructing dioramas and making collages, games, and maps from old magazines or tossed-out cardboard. To get away from my six brothers and sisters, I set up a studio under the dining room table. It was quiet and the chairs (sometimes) protected my work.

I was probably about 11 years old when I went to the Chicago Art Institute for the first time. I remember telling a classmate about the amazing painting I had seen made with dots (Georges Seurat’s, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte). My friend didn’t care at all, but I began a journey using dots in all my work with colored pencils. I changed my style immediately when I was asked to draw Charlie Brown comic characters for a nickel. Art could make me money!

Those Snoopy drawings helped support a problematic pinball habit back then.

I want to thank all of my wonderful supporters who have collected my work or have given moral incentive over many years. I am very lucky. And, if you would like to pledge new or continued support, just click the link below. You can donate enough money for a book of stamps, or enough to buy a couple of micron pen, and as a thank you, I promise to send a token, a drawing, a painting, or something that I hope you will find of value.