Since I began concentrating on painting and drawing 25 years ago, my main interest has been figurative art. I have tried to imbue my work with a zest that makes the figures as vivid and alive and expressive as possible. Sometimes they are done with a dash that attempts to capture the moment. While working, sometime quickly, I feel that the figure must have a definite verisimilitude, the gesture must be right as an anchor before the work can proceed even in a semiabstract approach. My work originally concentrated on watercolors, but I quickly took up acrylics as a more expressive medium for figurative work. I also work in tempera, pastel, charcoal and other media, sometimes in combination. Usually I work on paper or canvas but I also work on vellum, Mylar and multimedia board, a synthetic product that looks like paper but is more like a plastic and breaks rather than tears. It is composed of paper and thermal set epoxy resin. I also do computer drawings. These are based on work done in a studio from models. I redraw the image on a computer using a mouse. Then I print it, usually in color. Sometimes I retain part of the original work on the computer print. Before taking up painting and drawing fulltime, I was a reporter for the Baltimore Sun in Baltimore Moscow and Washington for 32 years. During many of those years I rushed through dinner and went to evening drawing groups. I studied with the late Bill Calfee, of American University, and Patricia Friend.

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