The Beginning

Everyday is an adventure. But no day is finished till I do some sort of art work. Today I painted my first set of TOMS for a paying customer!! Business started.

Nothing gives me more joy than painting, let alone someone thinking you are good enough to paint something for them and they pay you! When someone tells you "You are talented" or "I would love to buy your painting." Its like a rush. When they tell you that you have a gift and they want to invest in you.

Finally I am starting to become what I have dreamed of my whole life. An Artist. Professionally. The older I get and the more I practice and learn the closer I become to what I have always dreamed of.

This may be only a little step, but a little step is the beginning of a great journey.

These are two pairs of TOMS that I have painted. Palm Trees and SunFlowers. If you are interested in purchasing some please email me, or comment below.

Good Day

Things always have a funny way of working out. Everyday I learn something new. Everyday is like a little adventure.
I started a painting the other day and I haven't had the desire to finish it. I'm not sure why that is really. I think it will be really cool once it's completed but it's getting the finished product that can be the battle.
Isn't life like that sometimes. Some days you just have to "get through" in order to get to the "good" days again. But I'm tired of looking at life like that. Everyday has good in it, sometimes it's just a little harder to find.

God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow nor sun without rain, but he did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears and light for the way.

Colors of My Mind.

I know I haven't posted in awhile. But I'm back! I have some art work I'm going to share. And I'm going to be posting more of just my art and photos from now on. Explaining why I did them. My inspiration and such.

This is a self portrait believe it or not. I did this painting in about two hours. The inspiration would be myself. As I am reflecting on who I am I wanted a painting to show who I was. I always paint nature, but I wanted to paint something that meant something to someone. I wanted to show me. My hair shows all that makes up who I am. The colors and creativity, certain things that are important, and certain things that have made me who I am. When I go through life day by day I see things in colors. Like every person has a certain color and all my feelings have a color. Most of those colors are shown here in my hair.
That's the inspiration, now to how I did the painting. The background was done first. I mixed acrylic paint with water to make it thinner and to make it splatter better, and also run. I then mixed a color that looked like my skin tone that is under the figure, then I added all the colors of the hair. It was painting in 5 sections each their own color and then slowly it all mixed. Last I painted my face black. I painted my face black to show that I wasn't the focus. That the focus was on my hair, my world.

I hope you like it!