In 1988, when I first worked with a Quantel Graphic Paintbox, I thought I should be able to illustrate pictures entirely with the computer. My major in college was illustration, and the Quantel equipment provided the most realistic computer-generated airbrush ever, even by today's standards. One of the earliest surviving "paintings" I did on the Paintbox, an illustration of lipstick, can be seen here.

I'm currently inspired by the sci-fi designs of the 1950s, and try to incorporate that feeling into some of my personal artwork. The 1950s were a time when people's personal values were decent, and science fiction artists and writers wondered about space travel.

The thought of a kid bringing a gun to school must have seemed as foreign as the alien worlds artists painted at the time. People marveled at their new electric ovens and dishwashers. Television, radio, science fiction, the atomic bomb, and new designs and plastics were all fused together in a style I refer to as "Strictly Automatic".