Johnny has been interested in art for many years and has worked with many media including drawing, tole painting, wood burning, pastel, colored pencil, and watercolor. Most recently he has painted in acrylic and oil.

Johnny enjoys drawing people. He works from photographs, especially old photographs. In the black and white photos of children at play he focuses on the movement and activity, not worried with color. When he finds a subject that is interesting to him, he will draw it in graphite or charcoal. If he likes what he has done then he will do it again in colored pencil, pastel or watercolor. He enjoys the satisfaction when he finishes a nice piece of art.

Art has been a way to get him through hard times in his life…Vietnam, divorce, the death of his daughter. Life is good now and he enjoys art more than ever.

He has taken college classes in drawing and watercolor, private lessons from Linda Godsey and Farrell Ford, and has gotten a lot out of reading art books and magazines, and through trial and error.

He has a painting in Judge George Van Hooks office in El Dorado and a painting in Senator Mike Ross's El Dorado office. He hopes to have art on his mother's refrigerator one day.

Seahorse

Fruit Plate

The Clown