Jim Toenjes has been painting since the late 1970s. He began with watercolor and acrylic painting outdoors while working in California and Hawai'i as an archaeologist. After several years, he changed to oil, continuing to paint on location. In the mid 1990s he studied portraiture and composition under Jack Rowe in Palm Desert, California. Mr. Rowe was a student of society portraitist,Weyman Adams in New York before World War II. Mr. Rowe served as a front line scout with the Eighth Army and after the war, continued studies...more