Changes

I have been away from the blog as of late and would like to take this opportunity to cover some of the happenings since my last post. For one there has been another induction group for the San Diego Air and Space Museum Hall of Fame. The last group I did included the following: Cliff Robertson, of movie fame, Frank Robinson of Robinson Helicopters, Malcolm and Allan Lockheed, founders of the Lockheed Corp., and Sally Ride, first American women in space. I will post photos of the paintings.

There was a new group of hall of fame inductees for the San Diego Hall of Champions Breitbard Hall of Fame, named after Bob Breitbard who founded the museum in 1945. Mr. B passed away recently at the age of 91, I will be forever thankful for the opportunity of being the Official Artist of his Hall of Fame. RIP Mr. B. The new group included Bob Larson, UCLA track and field and cross country coach, David Grayson, AFL-NFL defensive back, David Wells, pitching great, Greg Louganis, Olympic diving champion, JJ Fetter, Olympic sailing medal winner, and Community Champion, high school football coach, John Shacklett, whose granddaughter was one of my art students this last year. Small world.

Speaking of teaching art, the previous post showing me teaching Girl Scouts to draw Mickey Mouse has developed into a gig giving private art lessons to seven of the girls who attended the session. Their parents liked what they saw and asked me to conduct the lessons at the home of one of the parents. The girls will be attending the school I teach at and will be enrolled into my sixth graders art class.

I started back to school to be able to be moving towards compliance of No Child Left Behind Federal Law and maintain my teaching ability. I am enrolled in The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division going after my BS Degree in Graphic Design, four classes so far and all A's.

After attending the latest Comic-Con convention here in San Diego I have opened a door of opportunity, that as projects come about I will list and show them, with a limited edition publishing company. Working on a few concepts, that if they go through will make some dreams come true.

I will post more as time permits.

Samples of my art

These show some of the poster art I have created for my clients.

Samples of my art

The following posts demonstrate the different styles and media I use to create art for my clients. 

Teaching Girl Scout Troop to Draw

Here I am in the classroom I teach art  to middle school students, but here I am doing a special session with a group of Girl Scouts, 17 nine year olds, to earn their Art badge. They did a great job learning how to draw Mickey Mouse. 

National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame

I indicated in a previous post that the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame in Chicago changed their plans for the latest cover of their official publication, Red, White and Green. Due to the timing of this change I ended up creating the image in Photoshop, using high resolution photography provided by Team USA Basketball to honor Jerry Colangelo for his contribution to the teams success in winning the Olympic Gold medal for basketball. I hope to get back to Chicago soon and see some of the new exhibits at the museum.

Air and Space hall of fame

Saturday night October 25th at the San Diego Air and Space Museum their annual induction into the International Aviation Hall of Fame took place. I completed the two paintings which I indicted in a previous post of Brigadier General Robert Cardenas, USAF ret. and Astronaut Scott Carpenter, who was one of the original seven astronauts of NASA. Some changes have taken place for next year that will allow my fellow hall of fame artist, Stan Stokes (http://www.stanstokesart.com) and I to have a more hands on approach in the timing and the research for the paintings. I was able to speak to the two inductees I did and get them to autograph 8" x 10" copies of their respective paintings. It also gave me an opportunity to personally thank them for their service and contribution to our great country and world community as well. Now onto the next of my hall of fame clients, the San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Musem and Washington University, St. Louis Athletic Hall of Fame, with this years inductions of new members.

San Diego Air and Space Museum Hall of Fame

I am thrilled to report I have been asked again to contribute to the Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air and Space Museum which will make numbers five and six in paintings I have done. It would take a lot to catch up with their neighbor two hundred yards away with one hundred and fifteen art pieces for the Brietbard Hall of Fame at the San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum I have done since 1983. (At that time I had to redo the fifty-six members of the hall of fame in the new format). 

This years paintings for the Air and Space will be astronaut Scott Carpenter; one of the original seven astronauts, and Brigadier General Robert Cardenas who was part of the Air Force's test pilot group and flew the B-29 that carried Chuck Yeager in his X-1 on its way to being the first to break the sound barrier. The Induction ceremony will take place October 25th at the Museum.