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Background: Born in San Francisco, raised next to Palo Alto, art classes in high school and college. I've worked as a dishwasher, deliveryman, landscaper, waiter, copywriter, graphic artist, adjunct college instructor, drafter.

Travels: across the US several times, Mexico and Central America, Hawai'i, Europe (including a year residing in Copenhagen)

Education: Grammar school (still know a few first grade classmates), high school (freshman year had to do a report on Georges Rouault), some college (late 60's, early 70's very distracting), occasional art classes and graphics programs.

Artistic interests: illustration, painting, printmaking

Artists admired: some beatnik artists, early surf artists, "primitive" artists, calligraphers, some cowboy artists, jewelry makers, signpainters, Russian icon artists, New Yorker cartoonists, and many, many more.

Why I do this: personal satisfaction, relaxation, to please people