Hello Dear Friends,
Thank you for taking the time to come visit! As this is my first blog post, I just wanted to start out by talking about what I will be doing with the website. In addition to having a gallery to showcase past work, including commissions, I want to share other art work that I’ve done.
decided a couple of years ago to not limit myself to just canvas art. I have been beading since I was a teenager, but wanted to expand on the simpler designs from my youth. So I have a gallery of beadwork here as well. In more recent months, I have grown to appreciate photography and I try to capture my point of view when taking pictures of the landscape I grew up in.
As far as painting, I feel like painting the ballet is my first love. I feel so incredibly inspired seeing photos and videos of people dancing. The complete dedication and strength to the dancers art is un-matching! I am hoping that my budding curiosity with photography and my desire to paint the ballet will merge and I can call the complete process my own. But until then, I have worked with several photographers who were/are so generous in allowing me to use their pictures as reference.
My purpose of the blog though, is to just let you, the reader, watcher, listener, into my little art world. To watch the process and see completed projects. I want to bring you on the journey and share what I have learned along the way. I will be posting how to’s, how not to’s, product reviews, events I’ll be attending. And the list goes on. There are so many ideas floating around in my head and I can’t wait to get started and let you see that, through life’s ups and downs, that we can express ourselves through art. And not be fearful of what others will think or say, but we can live, and create beauty in all that we do! I fee like, when someone says, “I can’t do that...” My first response is “YES! Yes you can!” Everyone has the ability to create art! And I want to help! Let’s do this!!
(Watch for the next blog post: Creating Wood Round Art...)