My artist quest for sucsess
Feedback from Kevin Nunn
I have been painting for several years off and on.
I would love to paint full time as a career! It’s my dream! I love to paint!
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My life is full of curves and lines!
Feedback from Vijayashree
I am an art lover. From my childhood I used to draw a lot. Nature is my best teacher. By trial and error method, I have achieved some drawing and painting techniques. But still I am not happy in that. I have attended some hobby courses and art workshops. I want to learn more and more about art.
I have exhibit my artworks in some group art exhibitions. …
Keep on Rockin in The Art World!
Feedback from Eileen Weaver
When I was 4yrs my teacher said I had a good eye for art on my first school report in England. My father was great at drawing and during the war would draw my mother on blue airmail paper and send her the pictures.
My parents sent me to art school when I was 10,. we were trained more for industrial trades ..painting badges, enamelling and painting dishes and ornaments in the potteries of Stoke and Midlands England. There were many skills taught in art school but a lot missing with regard to fine art on canvas. These skills I do not possess.
Lost and Found in the Vineyards
Feedback from Kathelen Fox Weinberg
I consider myself an Act 2 artist! After a career as a Financial Advisor navigating the waters of Wall Street for my clients’ retirement portfolios, I now create and manage my own art portfolio!
My story even amazes me! While on an assignment in St Helena, California I made a wrong turn and found myself in the parking lot of an art supply store in Napa Valley. Wandering in, I emerged to continue my journey with a couple of canvases, some acrylics and a few brushes. …
Marine, Tattoo Artist and Painter
Feedback from Jack Hendrix
For as long as I can remember I have had a pencil in my hand. I have always had this strong urge to create and its something that I cannot ignore. It’s always there in the back of my mind, some idea or subject just itching to be created, and it won’t stop until I get it out on paper or canvas.
I spent part of my childhood in a rural area of Oklahoma. There was no art teacher, art class or emphasis on art in school. I developed my drawing skills the only way I knew how. I would find a photo of something that would interest me and then copy it. I was also a big fan of comic books, so I learned from drawing them as well. …
Nothing but painting
Feedback from Alessandro Pedroni
I started to work and get incoming for life when I was fifteen years old and all my life is lived using pencils and brushes breathing oil and turpentine. Now I am over sixty years and not let a day without studying and looking for something to learn to grow in my competence for express myself with my art. …
Enjoying the process
Feedback from Bill Hengen
I’m basically a self taught artist. I have been drawing and painting off and on since grade school. I’ve entered some shows here and there, placed but never won. Which is ok….
After high school, I joined the Army Reserves as an illustrator, the 6 years I served, never really did much illustration, but did get some schooling out of it so it’s was still a win-win. Ended up working with computers, never really had time for any artistic pursuit. Did some drawings here and there, but nothing really formal. …
I loved art when I was a child
Feedback from Diane Dalton
I loved art when I was a child, and was lucky to be one of two children recommended by my grade school for free lessons at the Toledo Museum School of Art on Saturday mornings. Luckily, my best friend, Karen, was the other child recommended. The teachers introduced us to many different tools for art such as perspective drawing, blackening art paper with graphite and the reverse drawing with an eraser, Covering a sheet of paper with crayons of all colors — then covering over the colors with black crayon–then using a scraping tool to draw a picture where the colors come through, using pastels and rapidograph pens, and watercolors. …
Liberated by the canvas!
Feedback from Wencke
After 8 years of education in advertising and Design I became an ambitious all-round graphic designer. During these 20 years there was all the time a stronger desire and passion for painting. All these years I painted the pictures I loved.
Despite of all the Oh’s and ah’s I received on my work, the voice inside me kept repeating there must be much more than just translating photographs to oil paintings. A year ago I put a line under the long, long days just sitting and thinking behind my computer. Looking at the canvas feels like a to liberation to me from this way of working and living. …
Addicted to Paint
Feedback from Loretta Rolison
It started out in a small amounts and under supervision, and was even put on hold for several years, but I am finally able to admit it out loud, ” I am addicted to oil paint.” I love the smell and the viscosity of oil paint. I love the colors and get a thrill when I first squeeze out a glob from a brand new paint tube. I have a closet full of paint encrusted clothes and at the end of a session will find it on my nose or possible an ear lobe when I look in a mirror. When I do not paint , I get so ugly; so very , very ugly. …