Art is a pastime for me.  Although I did work as a graphic designer, albeit briefly, I discovered that art is better enjoyed as a hobby.  Creativity comes and goes without much rhyme or reason.  I will often go many months without drawing only to  get a spontaneous urge to dust off my pastels, sharpen my pencils and go through a sudden fit of doodle-mania.  This is the main reason I ventured away from the arts as a profession.  Rather, my professional career has been engineering, so art is frequently therapy to counter the stereotypical anal-retentiveness of engineers (of which I am no exception).  In essence, this makes me a bit of a walking oxymoron, although some might contend that the 'oxy' part is not pertinent.

Most of these images (and I take pride in this) are unaltered in the electronic state with the exception of color balances and contrast adjustments to maintain as close of resemblance to the original as possible.  However, through the process of scanning (with my fabulous $69.95 scanner) and compression of the image files the quality of the pictures is degraded a bit (read: a lot).

Likewise, I have omitted much of the flash and glitter offered by Java and Applet script in order to provide a truer glimpse of that twisted creative hemisphere of my brain (plus, i am completely illiterate when it comes to programing with the exception of my rudimentary understanding of HTML).   I have compiled this collection to focus on my doodlings, not electronic wizardry.