A LITTLE ABOUT ME

      Hi My name Is Frank Bonner. I've been drawing and painting things since I could hold
    a pencil.. or shall I say anything that would leave a mark!

   Born  and raised In Scranton PA, I quickly realized I had a special talent that most of
 the other kids didn't have or didn't care to explore even If they were talented. sad to say
  I was quite the square peg growing up. wasn't a Jock.. wasn't a brainiac . and I most
   certainly wasn't popular. But don't cry for me.  this only served to make me
   focus my drawing further.. because It was my own special power. back then I never  realized
just how powerful It would become!

   I continued meandering through life graduated and went Into the army. even there I
  found a use for my talents. like painting the ground to air missile outside the barracks
  . or drawing up plans (realistic looking ones might I add) for a ground Invasion
 exercise In Panama. I also found some guys wanted me to paint murals on the backs of
  their denim vests. It waste the military where I discovered Heavy Metal magazine.. no
    not a guitar mag.. a cartoon Illustrated fantasy mag.. It really Inspired me to start
 painting women In leather and Irons . Back then used a crude system of chalk oil
  paints clear lacquer and a match . but IT did the job.

 
 

It wasn't until I was In the hospital In Panama where I grew Intensely bored.. (Its
 amazing how sharp you can get when your bored silly).
 Well anyhow I was using whatever the front desk had In supply pencils markers .. white
 out
  yep even shoe polish.

 After exiting the military I found a unique way of making me stand out.. You guessed It.
 I would paint on my clothes.. Oh yeah I never said I wasn't eccentric.
 maybe a bit strange. But that's the way you get when you make up the game along with
 your own rules.. you cant be compared to other peoples ways so you tend to stand out..
 I  learned to make this work for me.
Besides.. a great man once said..

  You will NEVER become famous for being doing what everyone else s doing
 
 

    I was soon married.. and spent the first years of my marriage painting portraits of
 peoples homes for extra cash. this was when I was In- between jobs of course.. ranging
    from a produce lumper to a quarryman to a meat cutter In a slaughterhouse . I also
               worked a number of other places but those 3 stand out the most.
While working In the slaughterhouses when I discovered airbrushing. I got my very first
  airbrush from my wife. ..  Would you believe I used It for 10 minutes and broke It?? lol
 yeah I tried to unscrew It to clean It at a part that wasn't supposed to twist.. 120 bucks
    down the tubes.. wasn't till months later I got my next air pen then airbrush.. a real
   cheaply made brush  But the best kind I could have considering I knew nothing about
  the art . I had 5 good years to practice with air .. Painting T-shirts for folks at work for
   side cash. gradually It evolved Into actual paintings. and bigger n better airbrushes .
  using the airbrush as an added effect. like perspective and softening. I grew Interested
    In submitting my work Into one of those plate galleries.. I soon found
I would have hit the
   lottery quicker than getting my work noticed from there. basically because they are
 looking for Artists with  awards and college degrees. Being realistic and realizing  I was
  probably one of 5 million other artist sin the same boat. .I  decided to move on and just
           stick with custom  work on cars  canvas and leather..etc..(FOR NOW)
I've always tried to make the best of the cards I've been dealt.. (its the main reason
 Im so good today).
    I look at It as a way to sharpen my stuff even further while other artists might be
 Limited to Illustrating a select group of things.. my profession made me have to explore
     ALL things.. custom work Is always different. everyone has that need to say.. this
   shows the world who I am.. weather Im an eagle person who has one on the bike.. or
  maybe Im Into murals sponged on my walls. everyone Is different and Its their drive to
                                 stand out that keeps me In demand

                         I  basically do everything In order to grow.
 
 
 
 

     Always In my work I believed in what I consider a minimum standard of
                                               excellence.
  So many other artist would merely create work directly proportional to the
                amount the client Is willing to Invest. I think differently.
If a perspective client Isn't willing to Invest the funds needed to commission
     a work properly and with  due respect and appreciation to the art I can
                   create,
I simply will not create art for that person.
 
 

 
 
 

              Thanks for reading and may your life shine on you like It has mine
Your Artistic Neighbor
Frank Bonner
  AKA The Airbrush Guy

 
 
 
 

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