The series started out as strictly black and white then I started adding color and experimenting with the images. I tried out different techniques and styles on the backgrounds as I worked.

I displayed them at the Grand Opening of Blush Modeling and Talent agency and anywhere else I could find to show them. 

Some of them sold and I got a few commissions, but they never really took off.  It was something to do and I was experimenting with totally different techniques and other media as well. 

I did the fun art on my own time while I worked as a graphic artist to support myself.   I graduated from Eastern New Mexico University with a Bachelor of Fine Art, in 1984, and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico in November of that year. 

I had aspirations of becoming a famous artist one day and I knew it wasn't going to happen if I stayed in Portales.  I got a job offer six months after I graduated college and jumped at the chance to get out of the small town I grew up in.  At the time I accepted the offer,  I was working as the Art Intern at KENW-TV.   I took a job as Draftsman/Illustrator at Dynalectron in Albuquerque.

After I started working for a government contractor I  found out how dry the subject matter was.   I had to do something to let out my creativity so I started painting.   I did the commercial work for a living and painted and drew what I wanted during my free time.  It kept me occupied and I enjoyed doing the work as I searched for a style.  The work evolved over time and I got better with each painting.  I was doing  a painting of Georgia O'keefe when I got my video camera.  That took me in a whole new direction and I didn't paint nearly as much as I had before I got the video camera.  After that I started branching into creating things on video tape and using the art I had created as subject matter.