There are two driving forces in my background. The first is that I went to college to become a medical illustrator. This training not only gave me a good foundation in anatomy, but also trained me to paint so that my viewers could visually 'read' what they were looking at. The second force was my photography. I studied black and white photography by using a 5x7 view camera. This is a large and heavy camera on a tripod which requires one to insert 5x7 pieces of film into its back to create a single image. Nothing like the point and shoot...more