For as long as I can remember, I've been an artist. My mom says as a toddler I discovered crayons and couldn't put them down. It's true. I love making art and it shows in everything I do. I believe in creation, not destruction.
I did the typical crafts as a kid but I was also trained under professionals in traditional studio technique and mediums including watercolor, charcoal, pen & ink, colored pencil, oil pastels, chalk pastels and acrylic paints.
I have studied sculture and explored a wide range materials including paper mache, clay, polymer clays, stone, fabric, wood, cardboard and trash items such as food containers, bottles, jars and various other trash.
At nine I began putting my pictures to some of the poems I had written. My mom instructed me on book binding formats and showed me how most books were put together. Empowered, I created several books during my kidhood, most of which I both authored and illustrated, and bound by hand.
Titles Include: The Butterfly and the Bumblebee, about self-esteem and the power of belief, Where Does the Sky End?, a boy's search for the end of the sky
and Monterey Bay, how one child learns to cope with death.
My passion for children's story books continues to this day. Current book projects include Charlie's Heart, a book about Mr. Chaplin, the saddest man in the world and Water Wars a story exploring the water privatization tragedy in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
