DANA TURNER

Born in Bakersfield in 1966, I moved from the Mojave Desert to Fontana in the seventies.

I grew up in an artistic family, from my Grandpa and his sister who majored in art in college, to my Great Grandma, my Uncle and my Mom.

I too have been gifted with natural talent.

I’ve been drawing since the age of three. As many children do, I drew dinosaurs, then many years later I started drawing things of fantasy, dragons, Pegasus, unicorns and a few fairies. Sometime later I discovered I had a really strange sense of humor and I started to express it through my drawings. Sometimes morbid, sometimes funny or scary or cute, depending on what I feel like at the time.

I’m forty now and I still improve in my drawing every year. I am constantly thinking up more things to draw, especially when I’m already working on a project. An image of something will just appear in my mind. Usually something that’s the funny, morbid opposite version of what I’m drawing.

I’ve just got to draw it out. I even laugh out loud as I draw these kinds of pictures. Sick little puppy aren’t I? What an imagination.

I use pencils, colored pencils, markers, pastels, acrylic paint and baking clay.

For clay, I just use the same principle as drawing and sculpt the image out.

I also like to challenge myself at times and draw things I don’t normally draw.

Sometimes what I picture doesn’t always work out the way I want, leaving me to wonder if my mind isn’t a better artist than I am at times.

My imagination never seems to rest, although if it did, I wouldn’t have anything to look forward to the next day!