What is your favorite type of art to create?

Homemade prints from pen and ink. I adore using the finest pen point that Koohinoor Rapidograph makes. It’s a 6 X 0 , or more precisely .13 of a millimeter. To be drawing that ‘low’ under magnification is other-worldly, and extremely gratifying. There isn’t a drawing medium that I haven’t tried, and this method of, India Ink for film’ drawn on clear Mylar, is incredibly fun (and easy). When dried, it’s correctable with a needle tool! The drawings are purposely intended to be prints.

Where do you find inspiration?

I find inspiration from things I find interesting, odd or funny. I have clipped magazine photos and saved them since I was a child. I have reference material from the 1940’s through the 1970’s, (long enough ago, that I don’t stay up at night worrying about copyright infringement). I collage old photos into surrealistic montages to convey new meanings to the viewers, then draw them. It’s not unusual for a single drawing to take over 300 hours to complete an 11” X 17” format. It’s tiny detail.

What would you do with $25,000?

I’d buy a new printer, and a new used car. I sell cheap prints of my drawings, ($25), but it’s not nearly enough to support myself. Print money supplements my meager Social Security check. It’s how I ‘get by’. The money would be a ‘bonanza’ to my life, if I should win it. I would love the opportunity to show artists an amazing ink-drawing technique that virtually nobody knows about. It’s correctable, meaning, it’s additive and subtractive on a 2-D plane. Sharing it would be a reward in itself.