Michael John Tener started painting and drawing as a child in Cedarbrook Middle School when he was in eighth grade. He enjoyed painting vases, flowers, roses and still lifes. During this period, he always enjoyed making shapes, working with watercolors, pastels and even basic as crayons. During his early experience with painting, he would use watercolors by wetting a piece of paper with water and then painting over the water with paint. This gave the painting a wet look. As Mike got older he became an established artist. Mike began at the age of 28 to take art classes at The Cheltenham Center of The Arts and has been there for 16 years. He paints still life, models, and abstract Paintings. Mike is considered to be an abstract painter and the medium that he uses is acrylic paintings. Mike also enjoys painting skies, clouds, grass and people but he feels that his strongest skill is painting in an abstract form exactly like Pablo Picasso. Mike has an art website which demonstrates his talents, his use of bright colors and his use of shading. Mike feels that he is able to share his success and talents as a painter with those who enjoy painting and understand what one appreciates in looking at a painting and seeing their own view of what that specific painting represents to them. Even though painting and drawing started off as a hobby for Mike he now sees his painting as more than just a hobby. Mike sees his painting as a way to demonstrate a way of communicating to the outside world of how and what he feels about the meaning of the word "art".