Michael King is a Rochester based painter. king earned a master’s in fine arts in medical biological illustration and moved to Rochester in 1992, accepting a position as a medical illustrator at the Mayo Clinic. He’s worked for more than 30 years in the field of medical illustration, and he currently also works as a painter. Later, he spent six weeks in Florence at the Angel Academy of Art to study intensive portraiture. He often works in the classical realism style.

Michael King has worked from photographic refrences starting from smal pencil sketches and painted two color studies. He builds up the painting in several passes, letting early layers dry before using a “wet into wet” technique for the top layer.