I grew up in small town Oklahoma, roaming hills of gravel left by the local mining industry. I waded in Tar Creek and chased tornados on dirt roads.

When I was young my father, mother, sister and I moved to the projects of Nashville, Tennessee. My playground was the State Fairgrounds where, for a nickel, a permanent small carnival showed Warner Brothers cartoons on a big screen. Mother went to church, father went to the Grand Old Opry, my sister was a girl, and I read comics and watched Soupy Sales.

 The family broke up when I was 12 and I moved back to Oklahoma. I started drawing. Through junior high, high school, and college I took various art classes. I never really wanted to take a drawing class, I liked following the pencil to see what it would show.

 At twenty I moved back to Nashville and developed an interest in rooms, I worked as a carpenter till I was 26 studying the colors and designs of rooms. At 30 I discovered theater. I studied four years then started producing and directing in small bars and rooms. Though this medium I was able to designed a room with a story, the fourth wall turned into a painting.

 In my 40's I moved to New York City, I started drawing more and working with computers. I begin drawing with Sakura pens on smaller pieces of paper. I started using Photoshop.

 In my 50's in New Jersey I'm using a computer, a printer, and heavy weight matte photo paper, to print various size drawings and make photos look like paintings.

Misevicius is a name on the wall of immigrants at Ellis Island.

It's the middle name of someone with the same name as mine. 

If I were "John Smith" the name would be displayed as "John Misevicius Smith". 

My family is all immigrants.

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