I am a Chicago-based artist who started my career in commercial art doing marker rendering at an Illustration studio. My 'Frankentower' illustration was done during that period. I then taught high school art for sixteen years in the Chicago Public School system. In my spare time as a teacher I pursued my dream of creating oil paintings in the style and technique of my favorite artist - Salvador Dali. By following Dali's 1947 book, '50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship,' I've had pretty good success in creating glazed oil paintings that have rich colors and good...more
