Here you will be able to see a small sampling of projects, websites, advertising art, graphics and photography that I have done throughout my life and career. As an avid learner, explorer and discoverer I have touched on many things related to creating art.

Growing up in the pre-digital age before computers were used to create digital art, I developed many techiques using traditional pens, pencils, brushes, inks and paints. Not to be painted into a corner, I have also made various hand-crafted and tooled leather products, such as belts, wallets and purses.

Even at a young age I saw the power and ability to manipulate imagery using a computer. I watched it grow and emerge as a dominate form of modern art creation. When I started in art school, College for Creative Studies (CCS), the transition from traditional art creation to digital was rapidly forming. By the time I graduated 4 years later many of the course offerings were starting to include the use of a computer for creating art and design. Gone were the days of learning to use a hard lead pencils and inking rapidographs for keylining and drafting, or the need to hand-letter typography, or special order gallies of press-on type.

I had the good fortune to enter this new age of digital art and began working with companies that utilized systems that were dedicated to digital art and design creation. For nearly 30+ years I worked on many kinds of advanced computer systems and software technology. From Linotype-Hell Combiscop, Unix-based DaVinci to Apple and PC desktop super-computers. Along with using these super-computers, I learned and developed processes with many software programs to smoothly integrate the pre-press process and the final distribution of materials for printing.

While most of my focus was on digital retouching and composition of photography, I helped developed methods to streamline the production process of manufacturing printing press materials. Early in my career the process included creating multi-color film separations for press layups and plates. Not long afterwards, digital presses started to replace the need for the traditional printing press, and the process for materials rapidly became to just needing a final PDF document that could be sent via FTP to the printer.

Change is the name of the game. Not only did I see that computers and technologies would transform the pre-press and printing industries, I also saw the new world wide web begin its radical transformation of many advertising methods. The new age of digital advertising was quickly forming and it would upend traditional advertising methods, like billboards, ads in newspapers and magazines. Keep in mind this new age of the internet was still in its infancy, laptop computers and smart phones were yet to be invented or mass-marketed.

I was completely enamored with web technologies. I rapidly studied and researched the latest in HTML, Javascript, PHP and general coding languages like Lingo, Actionscript and many others. In addition, I worked with many external elements of web development, such as building and maintaining web servers running on Apache and utilizing MySQL databases. I really got under the hood so to speak.

All this may be pale in comparison to my ability to learn and master new software. I was constantly challenged with figuring out how new software worked and the best applicable use for it. Sadly many of the software I learned over the years became obsolete, or replaced by newer software. Learning something new never got old with me.