My name is Warren Cullar (pronounced color), A very good name for an artist. I create acrylic and watercolor paintings, produce cast bronze sculptures and soft ground etchings plus other art mediums. I’ve been making a living as an artist a long time. I used to say five years, then ten years but now… let’s just say my first paycheck couldn’t buy a tank of gas today.

I love to create and experiment.  When I was sixteen I discovered Leonardo de Vinci’s drawing of The Man in the Circle. I visualized myself as such an all encompassing person. I was interested in everything: butterflies, fossils, Indian stuff, you name it. I wanted to do what those guys in the National Geographic Magazine did, so I joined scientific expeditions, sailed the South China Sea, became a Marine, and became a college professor.

I had my palm read years ago and was told that I had the ability to write and write well. On a long flight from Europe I started writing a few sentences on the back page of one of my sketch books. I wrote a letter to my dad twenty five after he had died. I realized I had so much more to say, to both my dad and everyone else. Five years added pages and pages of notes, old letters, photographs and stories until on January 1^st 2013 I made a New Year’s resolution announcing to my wife: “Kitty, I am not going to ever finish this book unless I write full time. Today I am a writer and will not make, produce even doodle in the field of art until the book is finished and edited.”

July 9^th 2014 at 3:00 p.m. we finished My Dad, Napoleon and Me. I mailed it off to two agents who had requested the manuscript. Three days later I started a commissioned painting becoming a renaissance man again in my mind.  I think I have something to say, it’s just telling stories through words instead of bronze or watercolor.