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I was Born in the Northwest of England, 1958 and moved to Iowa, USA with my family in 1972. I graduated from Le Mars Community High in 1976 and after a brief Tech school education, an even briefer recording engineering education and some years as a mechanical draftsman, I moved to Washington state in 1981. I currently live and work in Bellingham, 90 miles north of Seattle and 20 minutes south of the Canadian border - one of the most beautiful locations in the country. Art Education: Interdisciplinary B.A.
in the Technical, Graphic & Fine Arts, Western
Washington University, 1989 (included technical illustration, cartography,
computer graphics, architectural illustration, biological illustration, product
design and landscape design, as well as a range
of art history, drawing and painting studies). Art Experience & projects: I have created a range of website art including illustrations for online instructional courses (used by customers such as Nike, T-Mobile and Safeco Insurance) and logos and caricatures for numerous websites. I have also created cartoons for instructional and motivational presentations and books and contribute cartoons regularly to public education pamphlets. Other work has included cartoons for T-shirts, club logos, tattoos and embroidered emblems and patches. Beside cartoons, I have produced biological illustrations for educational purposes. Artistic Influences:
My Dad (cartoonist extraordinaire in his own right and Master Model Maker);
Albert Uderzo
(the Asterix books) for his fantastic cartoon renderings of people, nature and
architecture; Tove Jansson (the Moomintroll books) for her simple,
whimsical pen and ink illustrations of creatures and landscapes; great
caricaturists like Gerald Scarfe and Al Hirschfeld; the creations and humor of
animators like Depatie-Freling and Aardman; Frank Frazetta for his
amazingly powerful and visceral portraits (and less well-known humorous
artwork); Roger Dean for his amazing
airbrush "planetscapes"; Gerry Anderson (the "SuperMarionation"
TV shows Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet, etc.) for his futuristic technological visualizations and DaVinci, Escher, Monet,
Sargent and a
whole host of other fine artists for their influence on how I see nature, architecture,
technology and people.
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Dave
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