As the only artist authorized by creator Charles Schulz to reproduce the images of the Peanuts comic strip characters, Tom Everhart uses a masterful technique to elevate the cartoon figures to contemporary fine art. Everhart was educated formally at Yale, St. Mary's, and the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris before meeting Schulz in 1980. As Everhart studied Schulz's line work and copied his technique, adding painterly brush strokes and colorful splatters and drips, the two formed a friendship and artistic relationship with expression through style. Everhart's Peanuts work has exhibited all over the world, including the Louvre in 1990, and he has been splitting his time between California and French Polynesia since Schulz passed in 2000. His time spent there caused Everhart to introduce a more luminous color palette and it offered him a new way of seeing the work that he was dedicated to continuing.