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I grew up in Bradford NH, in a town of about 2000 during high tourist season. My
insterest in drawing began at an early age. I was about 2 when my "Grandma Mac" taught me and my brother to
trace circles to make mickey mouses. I had originally wanted to be a paleontologist, but by the time I was about 10
crafts, and then fashion, and then all manner of art as I chose became my consuming interest.
In 2001 I embarked on the adventure of a Baccalaureate
degree at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. After 4 years of building a modestly large body of work, I graduated
Suma Cum Laude with the degree Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art, concentration drawing, and a business minor.
I feel like my experience at UNH has enhanced
my own personal style. I have a very linear way of laying out a design based on my early self-teaching from various
cartoons. Later a goal of mine was to render realistic faces and bodies "without cheating", that is without
a source. This is quite impossible without eventually learning from copying bodies in magazines and real life, so by
1999 I was practicing faces, such as my Jim Morrison drawing, and by 2000 I was using catalog fashion ads as a model for my
miscellaneous fashion designs. Every now and again I would pull it back and go freestyle, or churn out a dinosaur.
At college, it is expected that you will
make yourself a protogé of an instructor and work closely with them as you hone your skills in your chosen field.
Also, each institution has a standard style that they teach overall, to wit someone can say, "oh that painting looks
like someone at UNH did it". I think I absorbed some of this style a little bit, but having a different professor
for every single art class I took in my degree may have worked to my advantage. Clearly the bare bones art things such
as rolling clay, stacking planes, utlitzing lights and darks, etching, value, tone, contour and so one were learned, but I
think I just may have done it on my own terms.
After college, I was so sick of being made to perform I didn't want to even touch a piece of paper.
Some of this was brought on by the disappointing experience that was Advanced Drawing, but I digress. I don't think
it's what I really wanted. I need something that is mine and unique. I think that is where I am heading with my
Lotus series. I have some grandiose plans with regard to this, but am getting some loose ends of other plans together
before I move into that phase. Currently I am spreading myself out mainly between one of a kind dolls, miscellaneous
fashion designs, my lotus series, and various fictional and mythological characters.
 On Pixel: Pixel was a fictional character created by Robert A. Heinlein in his classic The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. In the book Pixel is described as being an orange cat, but in spite of this a wandering kitten who came to our dining porch one fair evening in 1999 soon found himself with this title. Pixel, or "Pixie" for short, was an awesome cat and his legacy has lived on in his many progeny, a long o-tell-o, best told elsewhere. Henceforth all cats resembling him are "pixies". Shown here is Maureen (MoMo), the last pixie. For further examples, please refer to the ATC pages. |
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