About Christopher
Draft samples of my book Positano
I've been married for 26 years to my high school sweetheart Cheri. We have three boys; 21, 19, and 14. While we have called San Francisco and New York home, we have come full circle back to Lakewood, Colorado (just west of Denver) where both my wife and I and grew up.
While I have had a successful career in management and sales, I've had my mid-life crisis and I have flipped to my creative side. Having been reinvented, I now manage my late father's (Paul Sharits) film and art career while taking time to enjoy my own photography and acrylic painting. My true passion is writing. I write freelance articles for the Examiner.com as the “Denver Online Learning Examiner” and various other subjects for EzineArticles.com. I continue to develop and write web content, post daily to two blogs, and my true love, writing my first fiction novel, "Positano," about teen onset bipolar disorder, drug abuse, and teen suicide. The book is set in Boulder, Colorado and Positano, Italy. I could say that it is near completion, but I continuously dive into rewrites. At some point I'll have to set the keyboard down and say “enough.”
My own work with acrylics is an exploration and exploitation of the structure of the acrylic paint itself. I like the deep texture. It gives the paintings a sense of movement and depth. Most people want to touch them. I understand that urge because I like to experience them by touch as well as visual. The tactile characteristics are almost sensual.
I am also a photographer. I do have a digital camera and I do use it, but I prefer and only publish photos taken with my trusty old 35mm Canon. I will shortly add a photography portfolio to this website.
"the heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth." ~ Fiction author Dean Koontz
Other links:
Christopher's Facebook page ("Add as a Friend" for full view authorization)
E-mail: csharits@comcast.net
Nine page 1989 "Berlin letter" from Paul to Christopher in which he talks about his alcoholism, demons, and God... Part One; Part Two; and Part Three
