I accidentally started painting about a year ago in an attempt to write a children’s book. I decided to try and draw my characters, which lead to trying to draw them in colored pencils, then watercolor, acrylic and finally oil-which by then I was hooked. …
I started this journey like most but having a mother who painted, taught painting and showed her work,that was it for me at a young age. I was always drawing even doodling most times to pass the time. Then in grade school and high school it seems that it took me over. I was constantly drawing everywhere I went. …
The path to learning fine art has been a difficult and arduous one for me. To begin with, studying fine art had to be put off for safe career to be able to support the family. When it was time to paint, I found myself in an environment not very congenial to learning art. There were no teachers or institutions to support middle aged beginner. So I learnt and practiced through online courses.
I am 16 year old with a burning desire to become an artist. I live in a small island in an autonomous region thus I don’t have many options regarding an education in art. Currently I am doing a gcse in art. Since my early childhood I was encouraged by family to follow a career in arts and so far I have sold some paintings and sculptures at reasonable prices but I am unable to use the money online because of the state of my country. …
I was born with the mind of a artist, but the schools I went to did not have much of a program, then High school there was none. I went to an art college and the first design class I had was on positive and negative shapes, I asked the teacher what this was and he said just do what you think is best, I asked again but he did not tell me. …
My path to becoming an artist was thwarted, opposed, hindered and almost destroyed by the environment in which I was born into and lived for over 30 years. I grew up in a coal mining village in Western Pennsylvania. My parents offered no encouragement for me to be an artist. To them, being an artist was not a good choice of work to allow me to become financially independent. My only choice was to graduate high school and then go to work in the local sewing factory, which I did for a few years. …
Behind each drawing there is a story.
Every drawing comes from an emotion, a feeling that I express with them.
From what I take inspiration? From what surrounds me, I was always a person who imagines seeing a cloud and seeing its beauty, seeing a person and imaging where they are going, what they are doing, thinking, seeing a tree, a flower, I see their magic.
I always like to learn different techniques and then make it my own, experimenting and perfecting it, to be satisfied with the result, and then comes the finished drawing.
I have painted since I was 19 as it was the moment I began my art studies in a French art school where I learnt trompe-l’oeil and decorative painting, faux marble, faux wood and many others techniques. I wanted to go further so after my diploma at “Mur Dec” (Nantes- France), I went to another school of art that it was world famous in trompe-l’oeil and decorative painting: the “Institut Guegan” (Quimiac- France) that was in fact a very small french atelier but where I learnt a lot about “trompe l’oeil”. After my diploma in this atelier, I decided to paint my own paintings, with my own universe, and I was invited for some exhibitions.
I love painting in oils (although I haven’t done in years).
I feel at the moment insecure about starting to paint.
My favourite artists are Degas and Manet.
I graduated with a BFA but felt uneducated in the specific Beaux Arts style techniques and have since been trying to self-teach myself from imitation and books.
My favourite artist is Michelangelo because of his style and influence. …