I was born and raised in Port Huron, Michigan. At an early age I began to enjoy art and my dad saw the talent and encouraged me to pursue it. That is exactly what I did. Through the years I have taken art classes both in school and with private teachers. My range of art training includes oil painting, photo coloring, collage, clay, jewelery, and photography. It is the photography that became the basis for a lot of what I do today. Photography introduced me to Photoshop, etc. and as a result I gravitated to the digital...more