Unlike most other award winning artists I know, I have no 'formal' training. I have 'self-taught with most techniques, using trial and error, or researching topics on the computer. My love for art started in High School where I received high grades as I believe I was gifted with a talent for art. After some time, I found a passion for portraits. I started creating pencil drawings of famous people, but soon found that I could not capture the tones I was hoping to achieve, and soon found charcoal to be a much better medium for drawing. Since then, I have...more