About

Chris Burton

Since learning to draw stick figures at the age of 8, I have embarked on a life-long pursuit of visual creativity.

Influenced by my father who was a masterful oil painter and my mother who also had natural drawing talent, both of whom supplied me with the material, tools and time to explore the gift of drawing, I immersed myself in the world of visual art.

Throughout elementary and middle school, I honed my craft by absorbing and emulating a diversity of visual styles such as Peanuts' artist Charles Schultz and the artists of Marvel Comics. While majoring in art at the City College of New York, I studied the drawings and paintings of Norman Rockwell, Claude Monet and Walt Disney, and realized that human existence would be bleek without artists designing the look of our world.

In the mid 1980s, I learned to marry drawing and painting with the technology of the Macintosh computer, thus finding a new universe in which to express creative ideas.

With the current popularity of the World Wide Web and new advancements in communication technologies, I look forward to using visual imagery to color the new horizons of the human experience.