"Many artist's bios have a list of achievements and contest winning awards. I keep forgetting to enter contests. Maybe because making art has nothing to do with a competition for me. I wouldn't care if I won. I also keep forgetting to join clubs and art societies. Thus, held no important positions to boast about. I plan to do both starting this week.

I went to college a long time ago. We didn't have computers. I’ve wasted entire evenings back in the day comping a single poster idea with press type only to end up with a C+ result. Thank the skies for the advent of computers and desktop publishing software.

My first year out of school, I landed a job on Michigan Ave. in Chicago with an ad agency .
Proved to be creatively unfulfilling later. So I put a portfolio full of my work together, and hit the streets banging on doors. It launched my freelance business, and I was off to the races.

I started out doing business to business design and advertising, and slowly began getting illustration assignments for Crain's Chicago Business and the Chicago Tribune, then I met Triumph Books. I ended up doing 25 different coffee table books for Triumph Books like For the Love of the Cubs, For the Love of the Red Sox, For the Love of Dogs, For the Love of Cats, and many others ranging from sports to current events, and religion.

At the same time I started working on an ad campaign for Allstate Insurance. I ended up illustrating ads for Allstate for over seven years and did over 30 ads. During that time whenever I would go in to the doctor's office for my annual physical, I would see a National Geographic or USA News, the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, on the tables and Barry Blitt would be on the front and my ads would be on the back. I must admit I wished it was the other way around, but it was cool none the less. Barry Blitt is one of my heroes.

I’ve developed my own process for teaching watercolor to young students that involves nothing more than two colors and learning to paint pictures through the understanding of warm and cool color. This is where I am now and I rarely come up for air."