Thank you Andrew Hatchett for allowing me to join your community.

Thank you Andrew Hatchett for allowing me to join your community. 
A few here already know me or know of me.
For those that do not...
I am an artist in body and soul, primarily as an oil painter. I have and when needed do use other medium besides oils, such as acrylics, charcoal, graphite and colored pencils, pastels, or watercolors.

I am also a former computer network systems engineer, programmer, graphic designer, website designer, database designer and rehab tech evaluator/job coach.

In 1999 I had to give up my computer business as my MS could no longer handle the stress and pace, incumbent with working the computer fields. The MS has blocked through the damage a lot of what I knew about programming and am no longer able to program as I once did.

The up side is that I get to live life with my creativity still flowing using oil paints that I have loved since I was a young boy. I do special orders of portraits, caricatures, custom art for etching onto funerary headstones, or turn a group of memories, or a dream one may have, into works of fine art, as well as paintings of the many things I have seen throughout my life. I like to say: "I turn dreams, ideas, memories and photos into works of fine art."