SPECIALTIES

• Commissioned Portraits, Nature & Wildlife

PREFERRED MEDIUMS

• Watercolor, Pastel, Colored Pencil & Graphite

AWARDS

• Grand Prize: Festival of Arts 2009, CFUMC
• 1st Place: Georgia Art League, 2009 Summer
• 1st Place: Georgia Art League, 2009 Fall
• Award of Excellence: Colored Pencil Society of America, Annual Int. Art Exhibition, Atlanta 2009
• 1st Place: Livestock, Georgia National Fair, 2007 & 2008
• 2nd Place: Water Media, Georgia National Fair, 2008
• 1st Place (2): Georgia Art League, 2007 (one Summer and one Fall)
• 1st Place: Georgia Art League, 2006
• 1st Place: Ocee Art Center, Instructor Exhibit, 2005
• 2nd Place: Portrait Society of Atlanta, Drawings Only Exhibit, 2005
• Award of Excellence: Colored Pencil Society of America, Annual Int. Art Exhibition, Memphis, TN 2004
• Finalist: Artist,s Magazine Art Competition, 1996
• Best of Show: Festival of the Painted Rock
• Grand prize: Bear Hollow Wildlife Art Show; Athens, Georgia
• 1st Prize: Wildlife Art Show; Gainesville, Georgia

BOOKS: Walter Foster Publishing

• The Art of Drawing Series:
  • Faces & Features - THT290
• The Collector's Series:
  • The Art of Drawing People - CS09
  • (New book available fall 2008)
• Drawing Series:
  • Animals in Colored Pencil - HT309
  • Faces & Features - HT290
  • People - HT294
• Artist's Library Series:
  • Colored Pencil Step by Step (Co-Author) - AL39
  • Watercolor Pencil Step by Step (Co-Author) - AL43
• Project Book for Beginners (Reeves) Series:
  • Colored Pencil Step by Step (Co-Author) - COL5
• Kit for Beginners Series:
  • Drawing People - K27
  • Watercolor Pencil - K17
  • Colored Pencil - K03 (out of print)

EXPERIENCE

• John's Creek Art Center: Instructor of Colored Pencil & Portraiture
• Quinlan Art Center: Instructor of Portraiture, Nature Drawing & Colored Pencil
• Gainesville College: "Arts and Animals" Summer Instructor
• Gwinnett County: "Arts & Animals" Instructor
• Elachee Nature Center: Naturalist & Trail Guide
• Lanier Museum of Natural History, Instructor & Tour Guide
• Elachee Nature Center: Exhibit Artist
• Hall County adult education evening Instructor: Portraiture, Drawing & Painting
• Munford Inc.: Art Director
• JC Penney: Fashion Illustrator

ORGANIZATIONS

• Georgia Art League, past Vice President, 2008
• Colored Pencil Society of America, President, Atlanta Chapter, 2005 - present
• Colored Pencil Society of America, Signature Member & 5 Year Award
• Portrait Society of Atlanta - Juried Member, present Vice President & past Treasurer

EDUCATION

• Graduate of Ringling School of Art in Sarasota Florida