Specialties
Pet Portraits is one from the heart - I love capturing the spirit and personality of animals. Each portrait is hand painted on artist canvas in any size you want. I have over 40 years experience as a professional artist and aim to please. The initial consultation is free. You can have anything you want!
History
Established in 1972.
In 1972 I graduated from Pratt Institute in N.Y.C. and escaped to San Francisco where I airbrushed anything - portraits, cars, record album covers, lettering, clouds and rainbows, animals, etc. - on T-shirts at Fisherman's Wharf. After 4 years on the street, and working many flea markets and craft fairs, I graduated to painting signs, murals and graphic design (logos, posters, business cards, CD covers, and books and magazine illustrations) for local mom and pop businesses. As my skills developed, so did my client list - Atari, Dell Publishing, Silicon Graphics, Bucci Sunglasses, Disney, Universal Studio Tours, Six Flags Discovery Kinfdom, and many others. Even though I use the computer for research, presentations, and design, my work is primarlly hand painted and airbrushed.
Meet the Business Owner: Peter W.
I was born in a boring suburb on Long Island called North Bellmore, sixty miles east of New York City, showing an early talent for drawing and procrastination. My mother constantly carried scrap paper and pencils for me to use because I was drawing all of the time, everywhere I went. I refused to carry my own art supplies, always giving up art because it was so frustrating.
After being inspired by an art teacher in the last two years of high school, I took my talent seriously and decided to attend prestigious Pratt Institute in New York City (1968-72), where I experimented with intaglio, welding, advertising, illustration, film making, and finally, fine arts. I also attended the School of Visual Arts, studying filmmaking, which, at that time, was my first love. Despite all the distractions of an art school campus in New York City and the Vietnam protests every spring, I actually learned a thing or two.
In 1972 I escaped to San Francisco and became a street artist on Fisherman's wharf,