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Initial back-ground photo taken on fifth-floor at Mayo with the chair initially photograph at a used furniture store. Then the images were merged and remerged starting with the bottom chair first then layered up in digital layered imaging then treated in computer style water-coloring utilizing three different software in tandem.

Short Bio of Tristan M. Armstrong While in High School, I took all the art classes available as well as all the mechanical drawing classes and one year of architectural drawing. I suppose Descriptive Geometry could also be added to my background of putting pen and ink to paper. Upon graduating, I went into the military where my only real accomplishment was to graduate number fourteen out of a class of fifty at a school for Non-Commissioned Officers. Upon leaving the military with an Honorable Discharge, I turned to an un-successful marriage and college level chemistry and spent a number of years in industrial research. It was in this period that I borrowed back some of my portraits that I did for others in oil and pencil and...