Hello my name is John Kuhenbeaker and I have been painting most of my adult life> I was first influenced by album cover art having grown up in the 1970s there were a lot of great artists such as Rick Griffin,Roger Dean, Kelley Freas and Frank Frazetta to name a few. I graduated and went to commercial art school and once I found out what commercial art really was I switched my course of study to illustration. At this time my main influences were Picasso, Lichtenstein and Dali. I graduated art school and did not find much work as an illustrator but kept on painting and started studying the old...more