"BASICS TO PLEIN AIR" class

12x16 Field Study to Studio

My "Basics to Plein Air" class begins Sat. Oct 18 at the Scottsdale Art School.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Oil Painting. Graduated May 1981

Two years in a Teacher Certification Program at University of Phoenix 1998.

Continuing Education, Studied with some of the finest painters in America.:

KEN AUSTER                         KEVIN MacPHERSON                RALPH OBERG

KEN BACKHAUS                   RAY ROBERTS                              JILL CARVER

JOHN BUDICIN                    RICHARD SCHMID                     CAROL MARINE

SCOTT CHRISTENSEN        MATT SMITH                        JENNIFER McCHRISTIAN

LEN CHMIEL                         GEORGE STRICKLAND               ROBERT LEMLER

MARK DAILY                        CURT WALTERS                            PHIL BECK

T. ALEN LAWSON                SKIP WHICOMB                      JOESEPH PAQUET

DAN ROBINSON                  GREG KREUTZ                         DONALD DEMERS

JOHN POON                         R.S. RIDDICK                     MICHAEL ALBRECHTSON

AWARDS:

Southwest Art Magazine Award: Emerging Artist Sonoran Arts Festival 2004

1st place award in Oil Painting: Evergreen Arts Festival Colorado 2002

Phippen Museum Foundation Award for Museum Quality Work. 2000

PUBLICATIONS:

SOUTHWEST ART MAGAZINE Oct 2000 and 2004

EXIBITIONS:

Estes Park Plein Air Invitational - Colorado         2004

Norby Art Gallery - Cave Creek, AZ   One Man Show  2004

Denton Art Center - Kansas  One Man Show 2002

Laguna Plein Air Invitational - California 2001, 2003, 2004

CM Russell Show - Montana  2001

Gilcrease Museum Miniature Show - Tulsa, OK.  2001

Plein Air Invitational Tucson AZ 2000

TEACHING:    SCOTTSDALE ART SCHOOL since 2001