With over 30 years as a professional artist, earning a living through the art industry and all it's facets, Michael is excited to bring his artistic perceptive, knowledge and passion of art to Artsy. Michael began his love of art at a young age, and took private art classes from the age of eight years old. Michael was accepted into a state run "arts high school" and went to college on an art scholarship and completed multiple  degrees in Commercial Illustration and Graphic Design. Immediately following college, Michael freelanced for well known corporate toy companies illustrating, designing, and more. Michael then went on to create a very successful company designing and creating high end collectible movie replica models. Michael has also successfully taught art classes of all types to children and adults since 2010. His latest venture was as an owner at Artastic in Pompton Lakes.