I have participated in national exhibitions in media of watercolor, oil & pastel. Skilled in realistic charcoal, pen and ink, Animal portraiture, children, elderly, nudes, landscape, Southwestern Scene. Simple and realistic style more than "cartoony". Close-up, "in-your-face" type of portraits featuring fur or skin, anything with eyeballs! I use technology (computer graphics) to research and visualize but my final work is in traditional media. I am a painter of faces: Anything with eyeballs. All media, oil, pastel and watercolor as well as drawing. Pet and animal portraits are a specialty, specifically I am experienced in memorial pictures from those horrible old polaroids! My oil portraits are professional in quality, suited to the board room or even the cubicle. Years of painting from life has made me able to swiftly execute a likeness with the hand of the painter apparent. They are life like and warm, not simply renderings of photographs. I also strive to make budget