I'm not aware of any artists in my family prior to me. My father explains that as he and his sister were children of the great depression and the Napier Earthquake (1931 New Zealand) there was no time for art - they had to get on with the serious business of earning a living. And though my mother's family was more comfortable, there are no artists on that side either. But mathematicians seem to produce mathematical children and musicians generally produce musical offspring so I assume it is the same with artists. My son, Shane Rebenschied, started painting in watercolour while in high school and by his junior year, set his sights on Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He was definitely influenced by our artist friend, Joe Garcia, an Art Center graduate but also by me. When working on a painting, I would often ask for his input; 'if you were a bird, where would you be in this painting'? We discussed composition and colour while driving. "If you cut out a piece of that cloud and put it on white paper, what colour would it be'? So is it nature or nurture?
Shane graduated from Art Center College of Design with a degree in illustration. He worked for The House of Blues and another company or two before deciding to hang up his shingle and becoming a freelance illustrator. He has been doing book covers for the major publishers ever since. You can see his work here. Shane has continued to paint on the side and like many illustrators, may shift to gallery work as he gets older. He's currently working on a new website that is exclusively his gallery work. I'll put a link here when it is up and running. And yes, there are other artists in the family. My granddaughter graduated with a degree in textile design and works for a university with arty digital fabrication. My sister, Joanne Hanson, is a painter. Her granddaughter is also a gifted artist and so on. Below are some of Shane's paintings. Click on the images to enlarge them.
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