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My
head 1999
Gene Haynes 1984: Contractor Gene
Before arthritis; with hair.
Contact me geno03245w@gmail.com
Visit my self-help site about water heaters
Attended University High School, Bloomington Indiana, class of '68
Moved to new Jersey summer 67. Graduated Chatham Twp HS with average level of underachievement.
Personal summary: Every skill you develop is important so never throw away your work and always work for your dream.
I threw away work and burned more due to bouts of disappointment.
I hope you come to see periods of self-doubt as opportunity for learning instead of imperative truth.
Find a way to move forward and enjoy what you do.
My hands are limited from arthritis, but I began using older pieces of art to make new images with photoshop. 60+ and still going forward.
Formal art training:
Attended a summer art class in high school and quit.
Elected to take jewelry-making class in high school and was thrown out.
Worked on my own starting in 1973.
In late 1990's, attended 3 painting classes at Glassell Art School in Houston [actually took beginning painting class from now world-famous Julie Mehretu <> my only brush with greatness].
Learned that art is a free-wheeling world of self-promotion and harsh peer-review.
Saw that only the best inspire others and lift people into the future.
Learned I would never be a professional artist, yet discovered that my body of work is important.
Overview: Lived for many years in Bloomington, Indiana
Attended Indiana University. Received degree in marketing in 1984.
Greatest time was riding a bicycle from Tampa to New Orleans in March 1979 and camping out along the way. Worked as a house painter and handyman.
Finally settled in Texas in 1984 and built a house in 1987.
Resumed working seriously on art in 1994.
Retired from house painting in 2001.
Fought rheumatoid arthritis beginning 1985. Disability from arthritis starting in 2001.
Began working with Photoshop Elements in 2003.
Began writing crude web code in 2009.
Used web code and Photoshop skills to produce art-post.net and waterheatertimer.org web pages.
images
Colored pencil on paper 1976
More colored pencil
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The last thing those termites saw.
Without photoshop
Photography:
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Why does she love me?
It's a miracle.
Photoshop
Gene taken 1984, revised
Oct 2011
100,000 miles and 2 knee replacements, and I'd do it over again if I were young.
Colored pencil on paper 2001
I retired in 2001 with disability, and suddenly had time to draw for several months.
More work from 2001
http://art-post.net/2001.html
Bicycles page 22
