Born February, 1932.

Attended the University of Alabama on the GI bill and graduated in 1957 with a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering.

For the next fifty plus years I engaged in various engineering and business activities that occupied much of my time.

My formal training in art is minimal although I have read a lot of books on the subject. I still enjoy reading art history. I particlularly like to study the Flemish and Dutch painters of the 16th and 17th centurys. Recently my grandaughter gave me a book on art in America from 1900 to 1970 that I enjoyed.

My engineering training really gave me a foundation for art though. Engineers must draw to convey their ideas. In my day most engineers worked in two diminsion drawings. I seemed to alway prefer to use three dimensions. I remember a mechanical drafting class that taught me how to draw a coke bottle in three diminsions. (without the little Jesus figures that Finster liked so much). That was the part of the course that I liked most.

When I started working as an engineer I would always draw a picture rather than make two diminsional drawings, .....if I could get away with it.

I drew pictures as a child and I have continued to sketch through adulthood. But I didn't start painting until 1960. Since then the painting has been off and on even as the sketching continued in my work.

In 1995 ,while Billie and I were living in Mexico I got to know a local artist named Saul Rodriguez Covarrubias and his association intensified my interest in painting. We aquired a lot of his water color paintings.

I learned a little more about oils and pigments in Mexico. Some painters there use only hand ground pigments from the surrounding country side. I also learned their way of building canvas' which I use today.

For the past several years I have painted more than ever. Having time helps.