I grew up in Santa Barbara and moved to San Jose to study art at San Jose State. I began by studying illustration, but I changed my major to study fine art. I just recently graduated with a BA in pictorial arts. I enjoy painting and reading about art and other artists. When I am not painting I am trying to improve my golf game.
Paintings:
Most of the people I want to meet are artists who are long dead, but there are a few who are still alive. I would like to meet Richard Schmid and Kevin Macpherson
Art books: Alla Prima: Everything I Know About Painting, Hokusai, Illustrator in America: 1860-2000, California Impressionism, Contructive Anatomy, Vilppu Drawing Manual, Drawing People: How to Portray the Clothed Figure, Essential Michelangelo, Weatherly Guide to Drawing Animals, Graffiti World, Rendering in Pen and Ink, Mucha, The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s and The Later Portraits, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, any Norman Rockwell book.
Other books: Shogun: A Novel of Japan, Heart of Darkness, Neverwhere, The Autobiography of Malcom X, Lord of the Rings 1 and 2, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Princess of Mars, The Quiet American.
Stephen King books: IT, Needful Things, Christine, The Tommy Knockers, Misery, The Dark Half, the first three of seven books from the Dark Tower series.