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"I began meticulously drawing when I was 4 y/o.

I taught myself to compose images with a camera in Blach Hills NP -

Then, I was 7 y/o. Today, I have been shooting for 68 years.

I shot only B+W for 20 years to overcome the distraction of color.

I love creating and savoring many levels of depth in watercolor.

USMC BGen Kessler, 11th-grade Art Appreciation teacher led

my art class to Dr. Albert Barnes' home in Merion, PA -

I was a farm boy, then an aquatic insect specialist at the

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP), ground zero

for environmental consulting under renowned Dr. Ruth Patrick.

I was a Principal Investigator in Limnology & Ecology on contracts

with BP, Proctor & Gamble, Potomac Electric, Scott Paper, and

Washington (DC) Suburban Sanitation Commission.

I became a Junior Curator at ANSP as a 5 y/o.

I took up field photography as a 7 y/o -

I shot covers for American City Business Journals, etc.,

weddings, corporations, sports competitions, civic events.

I began very accurate, meticulous drawing at 4 y/o.

I've been a wrestler, tennis player, gymnast, SCUBA diver, elite

track sprint bicyclist - Alternate to U.S. Nationals first year -

"I began watercolor painting on a whim at 43 y/o -

when invited by Alcaraz to learn to do what he did in 1994;

Paco did two-man exhibits with his housemate Picasso

on Montmartre in Paris, France. He is held by the world's finest

art museums: Le Louvre, El Prado, and NYC's Metropolitan.

I didn't know anything about Alcaraz at the time. I just went

like a moth to a flame, trusting that it was right to do.

I was at the edge of a bungee jump platform, lept forward and

caught an American Air flight to Madrid. It was July 3rd.

(See the Perfectly Loved page on this website)

A Brazilian heiress arranged my tutelage

over dinner on Cedar Springs in Dallas, Texas.

Oeuvre since July 1994; 750+ watercolors.

32nd WC Anniversary, July 2026.

"I gave 527 program keynotes my first 12 months back in north Texas.

Watercolor is fun, creative and predictably unpredictable. Once, in doing a Dallas Botanical Garden series, I rinsed my brush in my stem of Cabernet and impetuously strafed and splattered paintings with my toothbrush. My Holy Land dozen, I tempestuously refined with coarse sandpaper. I slap my thigh with a dripping paintbrush to set its water content.  Methods untaught except by the moment, always with superb results. OMG, sizing actually matters but lessened it's as good as gone - Sizing's discovery made lawyer's contracts possible.

Once I dabbed pigment all over my running shoes before speaking to a general assembly of 750 K thru 5s in Plano, Texas. A kid came up to me in the school's main lobby, looked down at my colorful shoes and said, "Cool mister". That was a memorable experience!

Multiple times I spoke at a national bookstore chain and was invited to be in the National Writers Harvest. I recited in quite a few coffee shops.

My #1 place to speak was American Business Women's (ABWA) at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. A day later, I received a call

from a leading American philanthropy consultant. She curbed my penchant for major league giving. I am authentic. Pure Vida!

"I did a Texas Rangers AA RoughRiders painting for the Dallas Credit Union Association to benefit Children's Miracle Network.

I did a Ft Worth high school fundraising piece for a PGA Tour Champion - His wife called me at 6AM to mirthfully say that at that moment he was rearranging their furniture around her surprise gift.

I remember plenty of stories.

"One of my mentors was a Retired MG serving on the Board of Belo Corp. He was a USMA and M.I.T. graduate. Another was a sinker slider pitcher from the Milwaukee Brewers alongside Mark Ciardi (Miracle, The Rookie, The Underdog, Secretariat, ...). Another was EDS founder, the world's first billionaire, multibillionaire Ross Perot, Sr. of Dallas.

My parents disinherited me. Yet, family is important to me.

"Former USCENTCOM Commander, Four-star General Tommy Franks penned the foreword to my 1st book, Ode to Joy (OTJ). I attended General Westmoreland's 50th wedding anniversary along with 40 Medal of Honors and two Knight Commanders, Knights of Malta. 'Westie's' wife, Kitsy Westmoreland, corralled me for a picture.

"One of my paintings is between two original Picassos and a Chagall

on an international businessman's cattle ranch in Texas.

I have an influential memory of Dr. Albert C. Barnes' home

cherry-picked art collection in Merion, Pennsylvania -

Vincent van Gogh's, Matisse's, Picasso's, Cezanne's, Mondrian's, 

Pollock's, ... A lasting impression. Wow, wow, wow".