ORIGINAL ART PICTORIAL

ORIGINAL ART PICTORIAL

C'est moi

The Artist in Me

My name is Rod Jennings, a retired school teacher from a prominant school district on the North Shore of Long Island, NY, with prior teaching assignments in Ohio and Massachusetts. I am now located in Florida and North Carolina.

Having taught music and theatre arts for thirty years, creating art at this stage of life is a natural for me as it played an integral part in all of my staged choral concerts and theatre productions. Without any real formal art training except with Lester Polokov's school for scenic design located in New York City, I designed the sets,costumes and lighting for the dramatic and musical plays that I produced and directed. You might say Ihat I have always had a natural flair for drawing since early childhood. I did well in school art projects during my formulative years and during my secondary education, my artwork appeared in the handbook and yearbook of the Ohio high school where I attended. At my undergradate school at Texas Western College(UTEP) in El Paso, I was assigned other art projects by Drama professors and the Dean of Students. My undergraduate major and degree was in music education(classroom and choral). I completed my masters degree in secondary theatre education at New York University in New York, NY and found opportunities to include artwork in my related arts and theatre arts studies.

When I retired, I commenced focusing my attention to musical composition, another love of mine, having written a trunkful of pop and show tunes at one time in New York City between teaching engagements. One day a brochure on local art classes came to my Florida residence and the rest is history, as they say. I have taken multiple training classes in watercolor and acrylic painting. As a member of a Florida and a North Carolina art league, I exhibit my paintings regularly and have been fortunate to sell as well. Only a select few of my Pictorial have been reserved as non-saleable. Awards have come my way and in the following Gallery, those that have won honors will be denoted by a gold medal ribbon.

Please note that each painting or any other medium of artwork presented here has been duly copyrighted and protected against unlawful duplication or commercial use of any kind.