I have been making my living as a portrait artist for twenty-eight years since I was a sophomore in high school in Solon, Ohio. I was fifteen when my art teacher suggested that I apply for a job as an artist at the local amusement park down the road. Since then I have worked in seven different amusement parks all over the country, and even spent four years in Japan doing watercolor portraits and cutting silhouettes at Tokyo Disneyland.

Now I'm based in California, and over the years I've done county fairs, malls, shopping centers, street fairs, seafood festivals, wineries and chili cook-offs. From carrots and almonds to Dickens and Sawdust - if there's a festival in California celebrating it, I've been there with my easel! The smaller the town the better. Half the fun of this job is getting to see new places every week and meeting so many nice people who really appreciate what I do.