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Artist’s Statement:

I began my art career at age 3 when I drew on the dining room wall with a permanent marker (which guests barely noticed if you moved the credenza over a foot). Weathering the criticism over that, I went on to developed a love of drawing, drew cartoons for the college and local papers, and illustrated for a number of children’s magazines.

Currently, I draw most of my art digitally on an iPad with an Apple Pencil and the Procreate app. I love Japanese art (and Italian Renaissance art, and the Impressionists…and the Pre-Rafaelites…) and finds sharks fascinating. You can see more of my art at https://mikepaulart.com.

Drawing is my passion. I draw every day if I can. I am inspired by Old Master drawings, ukiyo-e prints, cartoons, manga, and children’s books. I think it’s wrong for a piece of paper (real or digital) to stay blank for too long, so I try to fill them up with animals, portraits, historic figures, political cartoons, and playful scenes. Through my drawings, I hope to show the color, the light, the beauty of the world, to escape dullness and drudgery and create something memorable.

—Mike Paul 

The Maiko

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Composition in Black

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The Scribe

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The Menagerie

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Pueblo

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Moonlight and Blossoms, after Ohara Koson

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Stacked-Up

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About Michael Paul

  Michael Paul grew up a couple hours out of Kansas City and studied way too much history and political science at university.  He has  worked as an editorial cartoonist and was briefly an art director at an ad agency in Russia in the “Wild Nineties.”  He taught history and political science at several universities, traipsed around the world a bit doing research in archives, and now lives just outside Washington, D.C.  He continues to wander the earth when he can.  Some of his short stories have been published in Satire and The Door, and his illustrations have appeared in My Friend, Balloons, Gravel, The Raven Chronicles, and others.

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