Computer Image Manipulation Skills &
Web Development

Microsoft Windows
QuarkXPress
Splat 96'
Adobe Photoshop CS5
Adobe PageMaker
Micromedia FreeHand
Micromedia Fireworks

Micromedia Dreamweaver
Swish 2.0

CorelDraw!

Offset Printing Skills
1 and 2 color offset printing with
an 356-CD Abey-Dick printing machine.

Graphic Design Skills
Logotype Manipulation
Trade Mark Design
General Design Fundamentals

Illustration Skills
Strong imagination, concept design and diversity in media usage.

Airbrush
Rendering
Ink
Colored Pencil
Oil Painting
Sculpting

Gouache
Acrylic
Watercolor
Story boarding
Pastel
Marker


Experienced with paper application and the effects of medium on paper.
 

UPS Delivery Driver - Currently employed and have been driving for UPS for
7 years. Sept. 2002 - 2011

Digital Line Art Design - Dan Cattaneo. Lewistown, MT
Design line art for silk screening process. 2010 - 2011

Annual Art Shows -
Chokecherry Festival - Sept. 1999 - 2010 - Lewistown, MT

Jay Contway and Friends - 2nd week in March 2001 - 2008 - Great Falls, MT

Children's Book Illustrator
- Kendall Bohannon, Pendelton Clay Publishers. Denver CO
Illustrated 8 pages and full cover for a Children's Book. http://www.zedswetpaint.com/Finnigan.htm
Sept. 2003

Offset Printing - Micha Rush, Rush Printing. Lewistown, MT
Operated 2 color offset printing with a Abey-Dick. 2001

Apprentice Mat and Framer - Dan Deegan, Watercolors. Seattle, Wa
Multi-tasked for a professional artist. 1998-99

Clickpoint and Game Artist - Barbra Hanna, Humongous Ent. Woodinville, WA
Digitally animated clickpoints and game art in the title "Spyfox in Dry Cereal." 1997

Ink and Painter - Barbra Hanna, Humongous Ent. Woodinville, WA
Ink and painted characters in "Putt-Putt Travels Through Time." 1997

Technical Illustrator - John Brooks, StorNet, Seattle, WA
Completed custom line art illustrations of homes. 1996

Free-lance Illustrator - Jane Ulander, Wizards of the Coast, Renton,WA
Illustrated two tradeable gaming cards for the "Vampire: The Sabbot Project." 1996

Ink and Painter - Barbra Hanna, Humongous Ent. Woodinville, WA
Ink and painted characters in "Pajama Sam." 1996

The Art Institute of Seattle
Associates of Applied Arts Degree
Major: Visual Communication
Seattle, WA 1996

Award of Merit
1995 AIS Student Exhibition Third Place -
Visual Communications
2nd Place - "Sedna" May 2000

Lewistown Art Center Art Auction
Peoples Choice Award
"Rollys’ Place"
March 2000

Lewistown Art Center
Art Auction
Peoples Choice Award
"Sacred Place"
March 2001

Montana Ducks Unlimited Artist
Artist of the Year - "Dodgin' Pintails"
June 2006

Lewistown Art Center
Scholarship
801 W. Broadway
Lewistown, MT 1993

Custer County 21st Annual Art Exhibit
Accepted the original "Shootin' The Wild IV"
for Juried Traveling Exhibition.

Montana Watercolorists Society
Peoples Choice Award - "Twin Shadows"
Third Place - "Sunny South Side of the Snowy's"
2000

Montana Watercolorists Society
Peoples Choice Award - "Lake Snoozin’ Moose"
May 2001

Montana Watermedia Show
19th Annual National Juried Exhibition
Honorable Mention - "Shootin' the Wild III"
October 2001

Montana Watercolorists Society
First Place Award - "Square Butte"
May 2010



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