Don Eddy was born in 1944 in southern California. He attended the University of Hawaii where he earned his M.F.A. and M.F.A. degree; he later attended the University of California at Santa Barbara for his post-graduate work.

Don Eddy's painting style and technique is unlike any other. A photo-realist, he works on paper with acrylic on canvas as well as in colored pencil. He first paints the entire canvas green, then brown, and then purple. With these three layers he separates warm from cool colors. After the three layers of under painting color, Eddy often adds 20-30 transparent layers of glazing in different colors to achieve the powerful visual impact of his palette. In the last ten years, he has moved from images of toys floating ...