Being a lifelong music freak, his work has placed a special concentration on jazz, which reflected his lifelong love of the music. He started publishing his watercolor paintings first for greeting cards and then newspapers and magazines. His favorite artists at this time were innovators like Howard Pyle, Frank Frazetta, Burton Silverman, Le Roy Neiman, David Stone Martin, as well as painters Diego Rivera, Picasso, and Jean Michel-Basquiat, among others. After attending the High School for Art and Design in New York and a brief stint as an illustrator for a couple of comic companies including his beloved Marvel, he went on to pursue a career in painting, and later, as an illustrator. Keith began his career like many young artists, dreaming of becoming a cartoonist at Marvel Comics.
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