A multidimensional artist, Michael has participated in the creative arts for over 25 years, attending the American academy of Art in Chicago where he studied traditional watercolor painting.  In his various creative pursuits and careers, Michael has been a musician, muralist and art director for stage, print, multimedia and film, and painter. The visual accessibility of Michaels paintings is enhanced by the fact that he has developed a process that  provides archival protection for his paintings without the need for glass or Plexiglas.