A former software engineer turned artist, I’ve taken classes for several years at the Art students League of New York and at Hunter College. I mostly focus on painting in oils, gouache and watercolor. I also enjoy simple printmaking methods that can be done at home without a press.
Having escaped my previous life of staring at a computer all day, I now spend my time staring at real-world physical objects (and trying to paint them. My former life included a small collection of rubber ducks (“rubber duck debugging” taken literally, cheerfully outnumbering the overworked humans), and it turns out that a small yellow duck can be an excellent art model and sometimes adds just the right splash of color to a composition.
I am somewhat limited by having unreliably bad vision, but sometimes that can be an asset (it’s harder to get too caught up in details that you can’t always see). I like to focus on color and on the movement and feel of the paint application, with occasional random blobs thrown in.