Artist Biographies

Heidi Bosch Romano is the daughter of a fine artist/opera singer mother and technical illustrator/classical music buff father, a picture from a family photo album shows her as a toddler in diapers with pencil in hand, drawing away. At age nine she could already capture the likeness of people she drew, and by the time she was a teenager, she was especially known for her realistic eyes. She then moved to portraits and eventually studied anatomy honing her skills by taking life drawing classes, in particular learning to draw realistic hands and feet, an area in which her teacher said most artists are weak.

A lover of ballet, she works with acrylic paints such as the American Ballet's Swan Lake with Baryshnikov and Makarova. She also airbrush paints digitally with her computer, an example of this is her painting of the Bolshoi Ballet. Another older favorite is a hand drawing of dancers who were caught in an interesting mid-air pose by a wonderful photographer, Lois Greenfield. Her other pieces include portraits of actors, jazz musicians, book illustrations, nature photography and abstract art in vivid colors.

Sample portraits are of classic movie stars Tyrone Power, Grace Kelly, and more recent stars Charlize Theron and Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.

Heidi also writes, illustrates and edits books. For more information, go to Lunamont Visions Books.

Steve R. Romano's artistic talents began to bloom in his teens when he started painting space scenes and drawing pictures of the futuristic vehicles he envisioned would fill the world one day. As an adult, he progressed to the currently viewable full-color airbrush paintings of fantasy worlds and lovely ladies that fill his art gallery.

To date, Steve has produced over one hundred original works of art, some of which decorate the walls of overseas patrons. Of his many works, he is the most proud of a full-room mural he created for a children's hospital in San Dimas, California. The mural features a life-sized tree with a swing hanging from it, a bear, giraffe and other animals, all against a blue cloudy sky. When visiting the hospital to see how it was received by the children, he was told an amusing story by one of the hospital staff. One day the workers noticed that one of the toddlers who was playing in the room walked up to the mural's swing and kept trying, over and over again without success, to climb into it. This brought a big round of laughter from the adults supervising the children.

Steve and Heidi co-own and operate Lunamont Signs, an online specialty sign company. He loves making hand-crafted signs and is grateful that he studied the techniques of hand-painted signage right out of college. It's a craft that has become a lost art with many companies now using computer-generated cut vinyl letters. He's proud that his wonderfully unique hand-painted letters last many years longer and look nicer than vinyl.

For recreation, he enjoys many outdoor activities including skiing, horseback riding, camping and hiking. When they can, he and Heidi also attend renaissance and pirate festivals, and their adventures can be viewed on Heidi's website: PrivateerDragons.com.

In addition to his artistic talents, he is also a published author of many books. Go to SteveRRomano.com for more information.