For Keith Rislove, who has been a working artist for more than 60 years, life seemed destined toward baseball, when, upon graduation from high school, he received two offers from major league teams.

But the Korean War intervened, and while overseas he found himself taking over the events coordinator job of his military mentor. After being discharged, he pursued commercial art, studying advertising and graphic design at the Los Angeles Art Center. After 37 years in the industry, he retired, only to pick up a second career in art – as an acrylic wildlife painter – that is still going strong afte...