Author Biography
The author, Tom Staley, after graduating from Harvard University, taught himself to draw. He completely changed the way he saw and drew, however, after encountering the Boston area teacher, Andrew T. McMillan - - who taught with authority. Staley drew and sculpted (clay) with McMillan for seven years, often drawing from the model in the morning and sculpting from the same model in the afternoon. McMillan had been trained by the sculptor George Demetrios and his wife the book illustrator Virginia Lee Burton. Mr. Staley has work in major museums and publications and lives in Bangor, Maine.
