William 'Bill' Bailey, artist, poet and former banker was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He grew up in Buffalo, New York, where he studied basic drawing and composition. During his teens he sold sketches and caricatures at art fairs and carnivals around Buffalo, New York. When he was in the United States Air Force in the 1960's he learned portrait and traditional realism painting while mixing with the street painters of Montmartre, Place de la Pigalle and Saint Michelle in Paris, France. While stationed at Dreux Air Force Base, in France, he was commissioned to paint...more