Greg Finnegan
I live in southeastern Minnesota. I have a degree in geophysics and worked in oil exploration in the 1980s. Then moved into computer programming. I was doing software tech support for international customers before retiring at the beginning of 2019. I'm married and have 3 grown children.
I did some acrylic painting in college. I used to watch Bill Alexander, who taught Bob Ross, painting show on PBS in the 1980s. I always thought that someday I would take up oil painting, but work and family kept me busy. Through community ed, I took a still life painting class, and a plein air class.
I would take six weeks to complete a painting, but the plein air class taught me to get the important details down and paint quickly. A few years ago I joined the Outdoor Painters of Minnesota (OPM) and went along on their painting trip to the Badlands and Black Hills in South Dakota. Since I retired, I've had time to do a lot more painting.
