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John Pangia writes, "My first taste of 'public acceptance' came in the mid '50's, when classmates started asking me, an eight year-old, to draw pictures on the front of their notebooks. I've had no formal training as such, but I've been 'making pictures' (as I call it) ever since. Everywhere I go, everything I see, my mind perceives as an image on canvas. The inspiration is all around, the lay of the land, the bark of a tree, the way the light filters through the leaves. At age 53, I still sit and just stare at the clouds."

John Pangia has a long history with oils, watercolors and photography. Now he does "digital finger painting" using a touchpad and such programs as in Poser, Bryce, Paint Shop Pro, Deep Paint, and Amorphium for 3-d effects. When asked to comment on his technique, he says, "It would take a very lengthy draft to describe the methods used in creating the images, since each seems to take on a life of its own and I wind up experimenting with new techniques in the middle of a project." In effect he is saying that each piece of digital art is done differently, which may be the experience of most digital artists.