Touched by Armstrong's step on the surface of the Moon I declared myself an Artist that very morning; left my day job as a house painter, left behind my High School teaching degree and I have been making pictures ever since. With many local and national art awards, ski area maps, magazine illustrations, galleries from Maine to California, and a stint in a sign shop its still the "best job in the world". Twelve years ago I was offered an illustration commission form a local company, which has now grown to a big company, < whitemountainpuzzles.com>, and have created over fifty "posters" that they have made into 1000 piece jigsaw puzzles. Subject ranging from flowers to hot rods, animals to creatures, musical instruments to time keepers and many more themes to go. With the offer of many more posters to produce, its still a time to widen the shape and range of things, the people I work with and the professional challenge that is so wonderful about this vocation. Personally the paint