He spent many hours as a young boy perusing modern art magazines. Although he has a great appreciation for the many different disciplines of painting, he quickly realized his true passion was for the abstract view of things. The sum of his art education is self taught and a result of many hours spent painting and experimenting with different techniques and ways to apply paint. Steven began painting with watercolors and recently switched to acrylic based paints due to his curiosity about the medium, the ability to create larger pieces and the desire to add texture to the work. All of his work is created while listening to music and he believes that the music stimulates his creative juices and often creates a mood or an emotion that flows onto the paper or canvas.