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FINE ART--- I've been airbrushing for about 25 years now. I don't do T-shirts or any other type of wearable art that can be bought at your local mall. I have nothing against wearable art, but for the fact that there are plenty of other artists that fill that niche. I really enjoy doing Cowboy Art. Having grown up in east Texas, it's the cowboy and country life that I have depicted over the years. Much of my subject matter deals with a western or southern feel of some sort. Recently, I've began branching out into portraiture, murals, colaborations, and other works. Yet my main goal is to portray the down-to earth feel of a moment in time that would be lost once you look away. At the same time I enjoy the challenge of portraying cross cultural images in my works. Scenes that I, myself enjoy during a double-take. By crossing my subject matter with cultural spectrums I attempt to bring a bit of harmony among people into my works. For me, ambiguity in my subject matter is fine because it opens up my work to the viewers' interpretation; in my works, questions are much more exciting than answers - once you have the answers, the journey is over. I like to use the Paasche line of airbrushes such as the AB, VL, and VSR90. The paints that I like to use are usually water based acrylics, gouaches, textile paints, and watercolor. I typically work in 4-color; that is, I use only CMYK or Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black to produce all of my colors. Plus, white as an opaque or brightener. Much of my technique consists of a base placement of the subject first in magenta, then adding the other colors in no specific order, increasing the level of detail until the work is finished. I enjoy using black throughout, but much more as a chiaroscuro towards the end. My one main rule on all of my work is to never actually touch the canvas until the work is done - only then will I pick up a fine tip brush to sign my name - once that is done, the work gets a final spray coating of clear lacquer or varnish to finish the piece. All of my fine art surfaces are traditionally and individually prepared by hand, treating either canvas or hardwood birch paneling or any other flat surface, for that matter, with gesso or primer. I supply framing and the hanging hardware. My airbrush art also includes commercial illustrations such as album covers, various background art, and murals.
GRAPHIC DESIGN --- I first began designing business cards, flyers, stationary, business forms, and newspaper ads when I was still in high school. After graduating from North Texas State University in Denton, Texas back in 1985, I was employed at one of the largest book publishing firms in the business. Thirteen years of experience there had me traveling to different summer workshops around the US to design yearbooks and educational materials while learning all I could about prepress graphics and production art, package design, and various forms of multimedia production such as web design and interactive applications, not to mention brochures, flyers, ads, album, yearbook, and magazine covers. Today my day job is as a graphic designer with a community college in Dallas, Texas, and with over 25 years of experience I create graphic design and layouts ready to be delivered to your print vendor or service bureau. Additionally, I am Advertising Design Manager for ArtLoveMagic, an artist co-op located in the heart of Dallas's own Deep Ellum arts district.
El Centro Art Gallery showing entitled "My Kind of Art", featuring artwork from staff, faculty(other than art faculty), and administration, August 8-August 23, 2006.
Candid shots in my studio.
H. Paxton Moore Art Gallery showing for Faculty and Staff, August 20, 2007.
Check out my work at the Deep Ellum Art Park.
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"Diners Drive Ins and Dives" glimpses my artwork.
Scenes from "Underground 2012".
Painting with the "JustUs League" in November 2011.