Heidi Bosch is the daughter of a fine artist/opera singer mother and technical illustrator/classical music buff father, a picture from a family photo
album shows her as a toddler in diapers with pencil in hand, drawing away. At age seven she could already capture the likeness of people she drew, and
by the time she was a teenager, she was especially known for her realistic eyes.
A lover of ballet, Heidi's current works include a pose from the American Ballet's rendition of "Swan Lake," performed by
Russian dancers Barishnikov and Makarova, and a pencil drawing of dancers caught in an interesting mid-air pose.
Her other pieces include portraits of actors, jazz musicians, book illustrations and abstract art.
Her first experience painting on the computer, moving its mouse across a simple mousepad to make the digital brushstrokes viewed on the screen, was with a program called Sketcher. With it she painted a portrait of one of her mother's favorite actors,
Tyrone Power. Since then she's mastered the many techniques needed to produce high quality artwork, both portraiture and abstract. Some of Heidi's favorites pieces are the portraits of old time
movie stars such as Grace Kelly, and more recent stars Charlize Theron,
and the very popular Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.
In 2007, Heidi opened her own website design company, Lunamont Web Design of Montana, after having had several requests from local business owners for her services
and being urged to fill the artistic web design niche. Her web design ability grew out of a desire to feature Steve's fantasy airbrush paintings and her own works online after
a friend offered to make her a web site, but never followed through. She then spent the next several years creating websites
for her various interests, with each project, becoming more and more proficient in writing her own HTML and using
Photoshop to prepare her images for the web. After working for a B2B web development company several years ago,
she gained valuable knowledge which enhanced her skills immensely. In her ten years in the field, her passion for web design has
increased along with her portfolio:
- Privateer Dragons of the Caribbean, pirate history and trivia, with many photos of Steve and Heidi's pirate festival and renaissance faire adventures, plus a wealth of information for anyone interested in attending renaissance faires and pirate festivals.
- Lunamont Signs, her web site for Steve and her hand-painted wooden sign business.
- Dreams of Betrayal, promoting Steve's first in a series of fantasy adventures which she co-illustrated and copy edited.
- Realm of Nightmares, another book by husband Steve Romano, it continues where "Dreams of Betrayal" leaves off.
- Dreams of a King, the third in this fantasy adventure series by Steve.
- Rescue Centers, a site inspired by the love of her third rescued shelter dog, Casey.
- Lunamont Web Design, featuring her web design services.
- Health-Threats.com, topics about obtaining optimum health.
- Our Path to God, which includes her thoughts on spiritual enlightenment and God, the complete King James Old and New Testaments, a brief description of the major world religions, and links to many interesting books and web sites on spirituality and religion.
Steve Romano's artistic talents began to bloom in his teens when he started painting
space scenes and drawing pictures of the futuristic vehicles he envisioned would fill the world one day.
As an adult, he progressed to the currently viewable full-color airbrush paintings of
fantasy worlds and lovely ladies that fill his art galleries.
To date, Steve has produced over one hundred original works of art, some of which decorate the
walls of overseas patrons. Of his many works, he is the most proud of a full-room mural he created for a children's hospital in San Dimas, California. The mural features a life-size
tree with a swing hanging from it, a bear, giraffe and other animals, all against a blue cloudy sky. When visiting the
hospital to see how it was received by the children, he was told an amusing story by one of the hospital staff.
One day the workers noticed that one of the toddlers who was playing in the room walked up to the mural's swing
and kept trying, over and over again without success, to climb into it. This brought a big round of laughter from the adults
supervising the children.
Steve and Heidi own Lunamont Signs, a
specialty sign business they started after moving into their Montana Ranch. He loves the creativity and freedom involved and is grateful that
he studied the techniques of hand painted signage in his early years, a trade that has become a lost art with many companies now using
computer generated cut vinyl letters. He's proud that his wonderfully unique hand-painted letters last for many years, long after the vinyl letters of an
ordinary sign would have faded, peeled off, or disintegrated.
For recreation, he and his wife Heidi enjoy attending local renaissance faires and pirate festivals dressed in costume in the guise of their alter-egos Laktos the Intolerable and Captain Cuckoo.
Their adventures at faire can be seen on Heidi's website: Privateer Dragons of the Caribbean.
In addition to his artistic talents, he is also a published author of two swashbuckling fantasy action adventures, Dreams of Betrayal
and Realm of Nightmares. He's currently working on the third book of the series, Dreams of a King.
