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Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

I've come up through art school, through painting, through graphic design, through advertising, through TV commercials and music video. I've designed books, built billboards, matchbooks, corporate identities. I continuously paint, I've done conceptual art pictures.

Painting, drawing - I'm really into photography, I've done it since high school.

I did painting before I did photography.

I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.

I started painting when I was in high school.

I had tried painting, mostly to give myself a greater appreciation of the craft and to inform how I looked at paintings. That led to collaging some of the work I had done on paper, and I found myself mixing in found pieces as well.

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.