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| Our House, Crayons and color pencils on paper |
Hello Friends,
For as long as I can remember, I have always loved creating and painting. As a child I would use crayons or pencil, as a teen I explored with different mediums available to me. Although I had several art classes in high school, I'm basically a self-taught artist.
Above is a drawing I did at age five that my grandmother kept.
I didn't realized how important art was for me until I took a trip to Europe in the summer of 1985. I was in heaven exploring the Louvre in Paris and their countless galleries. I couldn't get enough of the Uffizi in Florence or the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. I was living and breathing art for weeks. I took literally hundreds of photographs during that trip, some were actually published. But what I couldn't wait to do was paint some of those places I found so beautiful on my trip. And that I did. I bought oil paints for the first time, canvases, brushes and painted during my free time for 4 years.
Then when I became a mother, my children became my priority. I did paint here and there but not consistently. It wasn't until my daughter went to college in 2009 that I started to paint again. I took a watercolor class from Tom Tiedeman in San Diego and one mix media art class from Clara Berta in Los Angeles. I wanted to explore as many art tools as I could, as I was so thirsty to develop my own style of painting.
Now that my son is going to college this coming August too, I will have more time to paint. I am looking for ways to transition from art as a hobby, to a full time artist. There is nothing else I would rather do than paint and create all day long. For me, when I paint it's more than unleashing my creativity, it's connecting with my Creator, as art is being born. In this blog I'll write about the journey I'm taking to become a full time artist.
With love,
Glad
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