About the Author
Jim Hurst grew up in the small town of Merced, California. After 4 years as a Fine Arts major at Merced Junior College and California State College, Turlock, he discovered what "starving artist" really meant and joined the Navy as a F-14 Aviation Electrician (VF-211 NAS Miramar).
It was toward the end of his second naval enlistment in which he first saw Wet-On-Wet oil painting on PBS Television, and after years of painting and experimentation he developed a technique that merged Old World underpainting and New World Wet-On-Wet overpainting, and it led to a series of how-to paint self-published books dubbed Merged Centuries Oil Painting.
Recently, Jims mother gave him a chest containing old drawings and homemade comics he created as a youth that he has not seen in over 30 years, and from these drawings the inspiration for his first novel Jack Ryder The Rundorth Faction was born.