Bill's profile
I knew I wanted to create pictures ever since I picked up my first crayon and doodled my premiere landscape on the kitchen wall in my hometown of Vienna, VA. (My mother was not impressed.) At the age of eight, I taught myself to oil paint and worked at it for the next ten years. When high school ended, I wanted art school, but the family was united (a rare occurrence) in their opposition, uttering veiled warnings such as, "You'll sleep under a bridge!" and "You'll starve!" In retrospect, I think they worried that I would end up mooching off of them. So, I went to college, got a teaching job, and spent 40 years as an English teacher and Gifted/Talented specialist. I can honestly say, no regrets. But now that I'm retired, I've started the slow but steady return to my first love. I had always wanted to work with pastels, so I started with that. I'll eventually add oils back in. Right now, I'm living the good life of learning my craft, loving nature, and understanding that it really is, and always will be, about the light.
