So who is KRASH anyway ?


I began serious drawing around seventh grade with a ball point pen, doing photo realism,
usually nude women. What did they expect from a 14 year old boy. A habit that has
continued through the years. As you might expect, nudes were not taken well by junior
high officials, and with that rejection, I kind of lost interest in art for a while.  
Most of my creativity and inventiveness during my school years, like now, was devoted
to things other than art any way.
Some of my sketches included; jet aircraft, weapons, flying saucers and even an artificial
eye. Concepts on space travel, mechanics and even how the brain stores memories. And
that was before I was old enough to drive a car.

One of my hobbies over the years is watching how long it takes the rest of the world to
think up some thing I scribbled in a note book when I was 14. I'm over fifty now and they
haven't caught up with me yet.

Leaving high school early, I became a "HIPPIE" and traveled around selling hand made
leather goods at ROCK FESTIVALS, but in 1971 I got drafted and spent two and a half
years screwing off in Europe.
Europe, like college for my friends, was a blast.
Besides learning to drive, and wreck, BIG trucks, I also took up photography,  learned to
ski and started to get interested in art again.
Also I set a local flight record in my car, 37 feet!
Amazing what happens when you ingest beer and hash then try to keep up with the beat
of the stereo on the gas peddle. Did I mention we were driving in the woods at night. You
can take a look at the car in my End of the road shots.
Since that time, I've practiced way to many trades, and continue to travel around the U.S.
I spent most of the 80s living north of Cooperstown, NY, but still spending most of the
time on the road. I did lots of baseball art, and I didn't realize how much work my signature
was until I had to sign several hundred prints in one sitting.

In 1990 I moved to Conneaut, Ohio, to get back to a cheaper, slower life style. The mid 90's
were spent on galleries, painting, sculpting, and drawing, plus as always, much traveling,
about 40,000 miles each year.

My latest project is my End of the Road series, featuring photos of old vehicles slowly
going back to nature.

Science fiction/fact is another field I've always been intrigued with. I've toyed with
numerous designs for things like anti-gravity, since I was 15, and of course perpetual
motion.
Perpetual Motion is actually an odd term, what is usually called perpetual motion are
mechanisms that run on gravity.  The old “counter balanced wheel scheme.” There's
nothing impossible about it.
It's just an answer waiting for the right question.

"Remember......Every thing man has ever done was somebody's idea first!"

I never consider before hand, if it's possible or not. I always try first, and I've received
very little formal training for all of things I've done, I simply went out and did them.
But my main "talent" is thinking, coming up with ideas.
I like to call myself a conceptual engineer, and 90 Percent of my time is spent on thinking.
Now after filling many dozens of notebooks with ideas over the years, I don't bother to
write most of them down any more. I already have enough for this lifetime and a couple
more, with new ideas coming in daily.

Other hobbies I enjoy include; reading, writing, ranting and of course swearing at my
computer.
Bike riding (recumbent only), is a growing hobby in my life, and I’m planning to build my
new house on or near a paved bike trail in the next year or so.
Also you'll see on this site, that I'm working on Velomobile designs. That is, bodies for
recumbent bikes.

Everything I do is because I like to do it. Leisure to me may be torching up a piece of steel
for a sculpture, or driving to another state, just for dinner.
I also like to go bare foot when I get the chance. It just feels more natural, and keeps me in
touch. Back in the 70s I even entered a few races running barefoot.

Higher Education:
Coopers School of Art, Cleveland, OH 1974
Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, OH 1979
Kent State University, Kent, OH 1981.
I have never actively pursued a college degree because I prefer to take my own direction.

”If you have no direction, you learn what you are taught.
If you know where you're going, you learn what you need.”
Counter
I'm just another overly creative soul enjoying some time on the planet
Earth.

Below are a few notes about me, and things I've done.
When I have time I try to get some artwork off my list of projects.

Right now I have several children’s stories I need to illustrate, and
about a million designs for t-shirts and other graphic stuff.
If you are interested in an original, I do have a long waiting list, unless
you happen to see some thing laying around my studio.
My drawings and paintings usually include numerous fictional
characters, and as you will see, I don't follow any particular format.
However I do tend to draw a few mushrooms.
People always ask where I get my ideas, and I tell them it's all right
there.
An artist is just some who brings back souvenirs from his imagination.
Did I mention more than 30,000 individual pieces of art so far. I lost
count back in the 80's.