Digital art software has empowered both the painterly side of photographers, and the photographer side of painters.

But in the old days, visual artists used to fall into two distinct categories: those of us who created images with cameras and those of us who applied stuff onto other stuff, with brushes or other tools.

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.

I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.

The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.