Steve Jobs was a pioneer of the technological frontier that we know today. Founder and CEO of a little company called Apple, he rocked the world with the iPod and changed the face of communication with the advent of the first iPhone. He was a member of the Disney advisory board, a majority market share owner of Pixar and an innovator ahead of his time that will forever be remembered. I know that there is a lot of mixed perspective on Jobs, while he waged war on changing the face of the technoogical future, he wasn't always the easiest to work with or for according to many who knew him best. To me, he was genius, and his passion and drive allowed him to achieve success on levels so many of us will ever dream of. He was a true inspiration and I have always been a huge apple supporter (even though I think a lot has changed since his passing) his products, especially his machines are built with the power that a multi-tasking, digital artist, like me, needs.

When he passed, I wanted to do something creative in tribute to him. This painting is a very loose interpretation of his character that I like to remember the most. I painted this using my Wacom tablet on my Mac Mini in Photoshop. I decided to keep this really loose so I was able to get it finished in time to post the day I heard.

I wanted to play homage to the old school 80's style apple logo - that was my first introduction to Apple when I was in Kindergarten, at the public library. I always thought they had the coolest computers. The rainbow colors signified the 2000's when they had all those single body, brightly colored computers - I always wanted one of those!