hated graphite pencils in high school ( like nails on a chalkboard to me) so i became a fan of the BIC Stick, & IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL would trade scribbles instead of notes with another artist friend of mine, he could turn any scribble into a cartoon animal, i on the other hand, just came up with surrealistic nonsense.Which was sometimes abstractly wonderful! later i found Uniballs and then onto markers , when I picked up a brush in 94 for the first time ... it really didn't take and after ho humming for about 9 months, i put it aside. got back on the painting train again in 1999... since then i have found my process. a couple years ago the