Accuracy is of utmost importance to Kevin's endeavor, so he paints from photographs or from the actual pots that are from his own collection.
He says painting with acrylics on watercolor paper seems to be the most comfortable method for him at this time. He moved to Taos, New Mexico in 1995 and built a home
studio where he continues his work and studies.

In an in-depth study of the history of the pottery and civilization, Kevin found that today there are 19 pueblos in New Mexico and one in Arizona. In prehistoric days there were countless villages that moved around leaving behind their trash and tracks. Among the trash and tracks they left behind, were the ceramic pots that would later help archeologists to name the people.

 

The three overall names of the prehistoric people were the Anasazi, Mogollon, and the Hohokam. These people were named basically by the different ways that they lived within the environment that they lived in. The Anasazi lived mostly in mountains and high deserts of New Mexico, Arizona, and southern Utah and Colorado. The Hohokam irrigated the low deserts of Arizona and Sonora. The Mogollon lived in southern New Mexico and northern Chihuahua.
These people learned about the technology of ceramics around 500 AD, from the people farther south in Mexico, who learned it from Central and South America. The. pottery started out very plain and by 900 AD. had begun to include slips and designs. Those designs evolved through the years up until today. Each of the periods of the design evolution has had its own flavors, as did the area where it was made. Anasazi ceramics are different than Mogollon as they are both different from Hohokam, in shapes, colors, and designs painted on them.
Kevin thoroughly enjoys painting pictures of the ceramics of all of these people. He is always curious to know their origins and interpretations of designs, but "I mostly just appreciate them for their beauty and what they are, " he said. The historic pots that Kevin is now painting are from Acoma, Zia, Zuni, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, San Ildefonso of New Mexico and Hopi in
Arizona. Each of these pueblos had designs so different from each other, a practice still followed today, that the variety provides the artist with plenty of work for the future.