User:Charleshetenyisr/sandbox

I was born in Budapest, Hungary and lived in Budapest until 1956 November. I came to United States in 1957 January 1st. I have traveled all across the United States, learning the language, the American culture, the way of life, collecting images, experiences, and inspirations. I  settled in South California in 1960.

Having a life long passion for art, I started taking some courses in fine art, studied with: Frank Turriello, Darwin Duncan, Sergey Bongard, Earl Daniel, and Leon Frank, to name a few. I have found and participated in some art group activities, and art shows in Long Beach, Seal Beach, Lakewood, and Downey. I have received numerous awards, generated portrait commissions; I sold a number of paintings to private collectors, in the United States and Hungary. Fortunately all my jobs over the course of the years involved different types of illustrations and other commercial art where I gained a wealth of experience in all media.

Now I am finally retired, I can devote full time to create art. All the reference materials I have collected thorough out the years, surfacing now, and I am painting full steam ahead. Having no difficulties about creative blocks, I have to live long enough, to paint all the ideas I have stored in my head. I am now painting with watercolor, it is close to my hart, since my early involvement in technical illustration, and I have gained real good experience working with watercolor. I am now a member of the American Watercolor Society the Northwest Watercolor Society the National Watercolor Society the American Portrait Society. I am also a member of the California Art Club and the Topanga Canyon Art Gallery.

Studying with some prominent artists I mentioned above, I learned to work with oil, acrylic, pen-and-ink, pencil. I am taking on commissions of any subject matter, such as Portrait; Landscape; still Life etc., in any media.