McKenzie
Artist
McKenzie
Artist
Artist
Artist Of Sketches, Drawings & Paintings …Plus An Adventure, Wildlife & Motorsport Photographer
Designer
Product & Transportation Designer … Plus An Inventor
Builder
Product & Transportation Builder … Ducati Specialist And Custom Race Bike Builder
Artist
Artist Of Sketches, Drawings & Paintings … Plus Adventure, Wildlife & Motorsport Photographer
Artist
Art has been a lifelong endeavor of mine. Largely influenced by the creativity of my mom, I constantly explored every creative outlet available. As a child I would do cartoons / comic books & build car / truck models. As a teenager, I liked doing T-Shirt Art, Photography & 3D Modeling / CAD.
I have always like to do full projects from sketches, drawings, renderings, clay modeling, 3D modeling, 3D printing & CNC machining.
A part of my new art & design workshop is a laser engraver / cutter, plus a screen printing set up. I am now able to pursue projects like my t-shirt designs and custom building harmonicas.
I am also a writer & musician, I wail on the harmonica, & I am working on several blues & rock songs.
Photographer
I have been on an amazing journey with Photography for over 40 years. I started off with a reflex camera my grandfather gave me. Hung around my neck, it is how I viewed life, through that lens.
After getting my first job at eleven, I earned a nice Canon AE-1 with a couple of great lenses. Developing my own film and processing my own prints in the high school photo lab was a favorite thing to do in my teens.
I was there when digital cameras and softwares came about. I was also there when drones started flying and carrying cameras. I have found these to be awesome tools that were an extension of me and my imagination.
I am Anti-A.I. and will never use anything but my own mind & creativity for any kind of artwork that I do. Human’s First!
Designer
Product & Transportation Designer … Plus An Inventor
Designer
Design became a serious interest of mine at an early age when exploring Sears catalogs and cool stuff like go-karts & Craftsman riding lawn mowers. Those interests grew into jam boxes & Bose speakers. I could not have these things, so I dreamed about them. Dreaming became designing.
My next interest exploration was in Auto Trader along with motorcycle & automotive magazines. I got heavy into Remote Control Cars & Trucks, along with Hot Rods & Motorcycles. I loved to draw & design cars, trucks & motorcycles, boats, airplanes & spaceships were also in the mix. These interests grew into kart racing & road racing motorcycles. Which I have designing & building for over 30 years now.
I started in CAD when it first developed & lucked out that a teacher in high school was excited about CAD, so he developed & started a CAD class in the 80’s. I followed 3D Design & developed my own motorcycle design degree by attending several colleges / trade schools & mixing the courses & knowledge together as my own degree.
Inventor
Inventing things are typical of blue sky designers, like me.
I started in CAD when it first developed & lucked out that a teacher in high school was excited about CAD, so he developed & started a CAD class. I studied 3D Design & Animation for decades.
Through these tools, I was constantly designing & figuring out different types of powered vehicles. I was developing electric bicycles & motorcycles in my teens.
In my twenties, I started developing my own version of the Rever Rotary Engine, even making a hybrid electric / petrol engine all within the same engine cases.
As of late, I have been designing different types of portable shelters.
Builder
Product & Transportation Builder … Ducati Specialist And Custom Race Bike Builder
Products
I started designing & building products when I attended Art Center College Of Design for four years. I studied transportation design & learned everything from sketching & maker work to clay modeling & CNC Machining.
Before that, I was split between studying 3D Modeling & Animation at International Fine Arts College & racing an Aprilia RS-250.
Later on, I started designing & building parts & accessories for karts & motorcycles.
Now I design products for the survival / camping / fishing / hunting enthusiasts. I like to design portable shelters & all of the pieces that goes with one.
My goal is to design & build a complete line of survival equipment & vehicles. Simple functions, easy maintenance & long lasting would be the focus.
Transportation
The designing & building of motorsport parts led to my dream of custom building unobtainable racing motorcycles. I started & ran a custom race bike shop called Rever Corsa for six years. We built custom race bikes that you could not obtain unless on a racing team.
We specialized in Ducati & Aprilia, but also built Triumph, MV Agusta & KTM. I stopped after a large theft & negative employee experiences.
I intend to start building motorcycles again, but on a smaller level of mini-motos & only doing what I can personally handle / enjoy.
I am building a small workshop with a Laser Cutter / Engraver & 3D Printer, along with the tools needed to wrench again.
My goals are to enter bikes into The Handbuilt Motorcycle Show During the MotoGP Race at COTA & attend / compete at the Small Bore Festival at Barber Motorsports Park & Museum.
Gallery
