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I found an awesome photo of a crow caught mid-blink...and decided to do a digital painting study of him.

As I did so I painted an impressionist background familiar to me from many hikes east of the Phoenix area in the Lost Dutchman Park above Apache Junction.

As that neared completion I painted a couple of vultures circling over-head using photos for reference that I'd taken of the Salt River vultures north of Mesa AZ.

I've always been interested in art but had done little more than sketch all my life...and even then I drew mostly just cartoony, line drawings. A few years ago, I decided to take a number of computer art courses at a nearby community college. I met an artist in one of those classes who became a friend and he encouraged me to look into Fine Art classes at the same school. It turns out they have a great Fine Art program teaching traditional techniques of color theory, design, drawing, life drawing/anatomy, oil painting, photography and more. I've learned so much (knowing I still have a LOT to learn) and after having nearly completed a Fine Art and Digital Illustration degree I now have a little more confidence to begin to present...