I would copy pictures and drawings from the newspaper when I was in the 3rd or 4th grade.  I now realize these copies were mostly police sketches and mug shots of captured murderers and criminals.  If it had been today I am sure they would have me on all the kid friendly medicines available.

But I turned out okay ?

In high school I favored pen and ink and then onto acrylics.

These days I enjoy the cleanliness of digital drawings.  There are a couple simple tool online sites on which I practice the craft.  It is possible on these sites to watch a timline of me drawing the piece. 

The attraction on these sites are the great community of artists from around the world and the humour that abounds.

Some notable, yet oddball pieces of art I have created over time have been; a Halloween poster for my local community council when I was about 15. They repeatedly used that same poster for the next 20 years.   While in theater I painted my own elderly portrait for Scrooge's den in "A Christmas Twist", an original play in which I played Scrooge and my portrait represented Ebineezer's grandfather. It now hangs in my living room.

For another play, I painted a 7 foot set piece of a rainbow trout.   It now hangs on a bait shop in Wisconsin.

And for another original play, "The Glass Mendacity", I painted a grey speckled mannequin to look like Paul Newman's "Brick" character from "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." It now sits in my sitting room and scares the living shit out of house guests.

Speaking of art, below is a travel video I made while visiting Amsterdam, home of Rijks Musee' and The Van Gogh Musee'.   My neighbor Scott Jones and I present ...