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About Barry

Barry and Margy I am a self employed artist. I specialize in charcoal, pencil and watercolors. I have two grandchildren, two children and have been happily married for 27 years. Some of my earliest memories are of drawing rock and roll bands and various animals, real and imaginary. Growing up in an artistic family I was always encouraged to follow my muse and was allowed to stay up late to finish a portrait of Toscanini if I thought it was important. My mother, Helene, majored in art at Pomona College and my sister, Alba, is a very talented artist. My brother, Tony is a superb ceramicist. (If you want to see their works look up cisnerosarts.com.) I was born and raised in Claremont and continue to live here with my wife, Margaret. I studied art at Claremont High School and Pitzer College. Among my teachers were Carl Hertel, Aldo Casanova and Karl Benjamin. To this day I return to their lessons and draw upon them for guidance and inspiration. I have had the great luck to grow up in a city that has always been filled with so many people who excel in the various arts. Some of them are very well known and are a powerful influence on me.

Thanks to the still fairly new world of networking I am able to draw upon a huge reservoir of photos that my friends post or send to me. This everyday interaction with so many folks is a wonderful source of inspiration and their encouragement has helped beyond words. I thank them all and I thank my wife and family.

Barry Cisneros

Watercolor Images

Garner-House,-Memorial-Park,-Claremont
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Charcoal Images

Vineyards-Near-Solvang
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Pencil Images

3-Gulls
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Other Artwork

Aurora-Borealis
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Contact Barry

Via Email:

thebearman2@verizon.net

"When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy—that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them." Mark Twain

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." Mark Twain