I start with a photo that makes me smile and then transform it into something that will be cherished for a lifetime. Using a snapshot or a photograph, I digitally 'paint' using a Wacom tablet and a stylus pen. Some are photo-realistic, while others are a bit more impressionistic. Art has been part of my life since the day I could hold a crayon and scribble on paper. Always a creative and a technician, it was a natural fit for me to spend my life playing around with graphics on computers. Long before desktop computers I worked first as an electronic...more