Working with letters is something I started back in 1989 when I started working for Baldwin Designs, a wood sign company in Concord, Massachusetts. I went there after school and learned how to hand carve letters into wood.
Then I continued my education by taking the 2-year full-time course in sign painting at Butera School of Art in Boston, courses with Jay Cooke at Vermont Sign School, night school programs on graphic design at the Art Institute of Boston, and I was lucky to receive a 4-day semi-private class on reverse glass painting & gilding from Rick Glawson at Fine Gold Sign Co. in Wilmington, CA.