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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Billings, MT, United States |
| Introduction | I am a follower of Jesus Christ and I attempt in the best way that I can to emulate and exalt His creativity and artistry by using my own. I love to paint scenes that symbolize or represent something else, whether that be nobility, redemption, love, mystery, sadness and joy, or more specific events from my own life. I tremendously enjoy every aspect of a painting and relish the ending stages as I bring more and more detail into the work. The word that I best equate with 'Artistry' would be 'Craftsmanship.' With my watercolors, I attempt to communicate and capture an impression of my subject. With all of my other work, I attempt to build something with layers and layers of detail that will stand up to the test of time and scrutinization. It is not unlikely that an oil or acrylic might demand 100-175 hours of creation time from the initial sketch to the hours and hours of detailed painting, using the smallest brushes available (or even using brushes I've created myself with only one hair to capture the finest detail). |
| Interests | Drawing, Painting, Reading, writing, Hiking, Long conversations and hot coffee, communicating in all its forms:) |
| Favorite Movies | Chariots of Fire, Ben-Hur, The Prince of Egypt, Seabiscuit, Braveheart, Lawrence of Arabia, Saving Private Ryan, Beauty and the Beast, The Best Years of Our Lives, Cast Away, The Bend in the River, The Far Country, Star Trek, We Were Soldiers, Sleeping Beauty, The Empire Strikes Back, Rio Bravo, Hondo, El Dorado, The Searchers, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Fort Apache, The Comancheros, Shadowlands, The Last Samurai, Glory, Aladdin, Tarzan, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger |
| Favorite Music | Alfie Boe, Hayley Westenra, Journey, Steve Perry, Phil Collins, Michelle Branch, Michael Crawford, Colm Wilkinson, Fernando Ortega, Chris Rice, James Horner, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Mandy Patinkin, Sara Bareilles |
| Favorite Books | Unbroken, Jeff Shaara, Stephen Lawhead, Neil Anderson, Mark Bubeck, A. W. Tozer, Chuck Swindoll, J. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Stephen Ambrose |
What's the best time you've ever had licking stamps?
This is hands down one of the oddest questions I've ever read:) For that very fact, I decided to leave it be instead of generating a new question:)