One of my favourite fortes is the infusion of life onto canvasses or high-grade drawing paper, and if the challenge stirs me, even sculpture. But my number one choice of them all is the pencil. It is a fascinating technique rarely explored to its fullest potential! It is one fo the best graphic means for detailed work.

The pencil can withstand considerable pressure and is also capable of recording the most subtle accents, when applied by a concerned, patient artist. Over my career, I have drawn, painted or sketched everything from pots and pans to fashions, from autos to portraits. Pen and ink is another favourite of mine. Watercolors and oils are a mental challenge, but I always return to the pencil.

As far back as I can remember, I have always had a pen, pencil or brush in my hand. Both grade and high school gave me challenges at an early age. But I began developing the pencil skill while in the armed forces. During the Korean war, I was in the USAF Strategic Air Command as a radio-ECM operator on B-29 bombers. I would constantly be drawing after completing my basic duties while on long training flight missions. Some of those flights lasted many hours and drawing was a way of breaking up the monotony.

All three of my children and my four grandchildren have the 'art bug', but show no signs of a desire to pursue it.

My wife Louise and I reside in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.