In drawing, Picasso, Rembrandt, Goya, Raphael, Degas, Matisse. I'm a full-time art teacher, and with commercial projects and a family, I don't resemble my lazy youth in any way. Do no harm. Aristotle is my hero as a thinker about the reasons we live and what we should do so as to be able to look back at life when we are on our deathbed and not scream. The simplicity of Mother Teresa to me is the highest art, because the visual arts, for me, are just a fragment of that which is art.
Art is about awakening from the slumber.
BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Southwest Missouri State University and an MFA in Painting with Distinction from Pratt Institute.