Traditional Arts

This page contains a series of links of my non-electronic artwork. I have always been drawing for as long as I can remember. In elementary school I started doodling my own car designs (the automotive world being a passion of mine), something which I kept up through Junior High to keep occupied during boring classes. Also in Junior High I began taking an after school art class, with Elaine McEachern as my teacher. It was here where I started to dabble in acrylic paints (as well as charcol and coloured pencil, which I haven't kept up with), and it was also here where I began to discover some of the more surreal artists, such as Frida Chalo and Salvador Dali. Although during my time at this class I mainly concentrated on realism (animals and landscapes), it was these artists that gave me the inspiration to shed my shackles and now paint with less focus on making things exact in detail. My drawing and painting got a vacation when I left home (and Mrs. McEachern) to attend the College Of Geographic Sciences (COGS), although I tried to draw in my spare time. After COGS, I attended McKenzie College, where life drawing nudes was part of the curriculum, and was something I very much enjoyed. Now that I am in the work force, I'm finally picking up painting in my spare time again.