After a career at sea in the Merchant Marine; 8 years in Italy and 22 years in the USA i found retirement gave me the satisfaction to pursue my lifelong interest in art. Oil colors have always been my passion, I made 500 + Oil painting on the last 8 years , took a week workshop with David Lussier, American Artist and Instructor April 2007, where i learn to mix my own colors. Went on a painting vacation last summer, in Croatia coming back with nineteen 9x12' oils done in plain air. I studied traditional realist painterly style from Mr.Hall Groat II American Artist and...more