Second Acts, Third Acts, Fourth..etc.

More ancient PB history today.
It's "Career Wednesday" again!

I was listening to Tina Brown talk about her

"second acts, third acts, fourth acts," etc. on Charlie Rose
and I was reminded of some past acts of my own.

I used to use an airbrush and my illustrations were heavily influenced by

Japanese woodblocks for their compositions and coloring.

After a serious injury landed me in the hospital(I was shot pointblank by a mugger), I got interested in medical art...

Always lemons into lemonade on my menu :) Really it was the pharmaceutical advertising art you see in all the medical journals.The movie TRON had just opened - the first film to use computer graphics extensively.

I combined the TRON look with old master drawings....

Still using the airbrush (PhotoShop was yet to be) I came up with a transparent,futuristic style that suited medical art to a T!

My first illlustration flyer brought in a ton of work.

Advil ads, Prozac ads, high-tech anything ads became my caviar and champagne.
Medical advertising pays nicely.

I did covers for Time, Newsweek, Business Week, Omni etc.
Are you asking WHO IS THIS PERSON? I've no idea and if I had to pickup an airbrush
now I'd be a goner. I did this for almost 10 years. Hillary Clinton came along with her cutbacks on pharmaceutical wastage-
among them, ads that ended up in the circular file
i.e. the wastepaper basket
i.e. what I was producing
And my very lucrative medical illustration business went down the drain. Around then I volunteered for the James Beard House. And a new career evolved that still kept me in champagne and caviar. From there I went on to wine art, but that's another Wednesday story.