Bio

Jeffrey Martinez, a Puerto Rican native New Yorker from Woodside Queens learned from an early age that art was his calling.  He studied life drawing and painting at the, “Art Students League” under the great American illustrator Earl Mayan who was a contemporary and fellow Saturday Evening Post illustrator alongside Norman Rockwell from 1984-1986 and went on to study illustration at the School of Visual Arts from 1986-1988.  He has airbrushed professionally in New York City, Pensacola Florida and Puerto Rico as well as brief stints in Dallas Tx, and Mobile Alabama and Buenos Aires, Argentina.  He also worked in graphic design as well as background design for the  Cartoon Network Production,”Courage the Cowardly Dog”, He now resides and works in Tuckerton, New Jersey where he continues to freelance.