…to my UT Art Blog. This website covers most of my classes here at the University of Tampa. It contains a portfolio of my work since starting school a couple of years ago. Enjoy!
A bit about me: My name is Don Scott. I retired from the Air Force (26 years, active duty) in 2010, but went right back to work doing basically the same thing without wearing a uniform. I am what people call a DoD Civil Servant. I retired from United States Central Command (CENTCOM – the command responsible for Southwest Asia – Iraq, Afghanistan, and several other countries you don’t hear about).
After I retired I went to work for United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM), literally right down the street from CENTCOM. SOCOM’s big claim to fame is being the command that “got” Usama Bin Laden while he was hiding out in Pakistan. SOCOM is also known as the top command for all those recent SEAL & military shooter movies. It’s not as glamorous as it may seem.
I also have my own side business, Tampa IT Specialists, which is an independent IT consulting company for small businesses (mostly friends of mine) in the Tampa Bay area. I moonlight as a web developer, system administrator, network troubleshooter and general IT consultant. If I don’t already know it, I’ll find you the answer you need.
While in the military I lived all over the world with my family – my wife of 29 years (still on my starter marriage) and my two daughters, now 23 & 21. We lived in England, Japan, the Netherlands and several states here in the US. We settled here in Tampa, Florida. Tampa is now my home.
When I was in high school (I graduated in 1983) I aspired to be a commercial artist, but back then everything was manual. There was no digital media. I just didn’t have the patience for it, and joined the Air Force to learn a skill. I became an IT guy for my whole career, and I witnessed many things, to include personal computers, the birth of the Internet, cell phones, smart phones, and broadband connections to people’s homes. Some time around 2002 I started playing with Photoshop and early web sites. I was completely self-taught, and slowly progressed, usually based on need…I enjoyed making programs for military ceremonies and creative military graphics.
I’m taking these classes because I enjoy creating digital graphics and art from all sorts of media. I am drawn to minimalist/retro styles from the early 60’s, black & white portraits and old jazz album covers. I prefer a clean, minimalist web design style with no borders/boundaries and with interesting balanced composition.
Thanks for reading! Don