|   | | Tom Birtley |
| Your art specific substitute working in south Orange County.
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| | Non-professional work in various mediums. |
| | Loose figurative work done with latex based house paint on stretched dropcloths. Called "Bottle Paintings", for lack of a better word, because I used a common ketchup squeeze bottle to shoot the paint. This creates a flowing, pen drawing feel on a simple... |
| | Part painting, part photo, part metalwork, part sculpture. I haven't even come up with a specific name for these mixed media pieces. |
| | I grew up in Orange County, and attended college in both northern California and Italy. After 3 years of working in TV production, I was laid off. This provided the push I needed to finally make my next step. Teaching is something I have wanted to do since 6th grade. My teacher had a profound impact on me; he loved his job and it showed. After concluding that TV production work wasn't for me, I made a 5-year plan (during one of my 12-hour night shifts). First and foremost was "A rewarding career." Soon...
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