OblivionTide
John joined
Currently I reside in the city of Antelope with my beautiful wife Rachel and our 3 children. I instruct a small computer and digital art studio for adults with developmental disabilities at the Southside Art Center in Sacramento. I began working with colored pencil back in the early 90's and took a break from the visual arts for 10 years to work on my music projects "Heldrasil" and "The Oblivion Tide". In 1997 I began developing websites marketed for those in the media and art industries. The most notable of these sites was that of Swedish Grammy nominated music group "Tiamat", I remained their webmaster for 4 years. After learning the basics of Photoshop I slowly began to teach my self what you are seeing here today. My process is simple, and at it's core has remained the same throughout every piece. I always begin with a simple photograph, and I never go into my work with any pre-determined concepts, sketches or "ideas". One piece leads to another as to another, and so on
