Before becoming a PaintNite host/artist late in life, Ron Bean had been in business as a computer graphics artist for 25 years. He has worked on hundreds of wine labels, websites, food packages, a 48 ft. long Petaluma Poultry truck side, and a Tom Waits album cover and video. He has also had watercolor paintings selected to be in the National Exhibition of the California Watercolor Association three of the last five years.