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Art has been defined as the expression of creativity, so perhaps it is that ability to create and express that has attracted me to painting.
God certainly provided expression as He created the heavens and the earth. While oil paints are significantly less grandiose than the media God had access to, paints still do allow for creativity, capturing time
and space and emotion onto canvas.Friends and family asked why I suddenly got into painting in 2006. I suppose it was a culmination of several things. First, having a paint brush in my hand has
not been foreign. To get through college and grad school, I had my own house painting business. But Sear's Best and artists' oils are quite different! I suppose spending time with my friend Mark Keathley,
observing him painting several pictures, intrigued me in the use of colours and shapes and strokes. But in February 2006, I repainted one of our bathrooms for my wife with some "Starbucks" colours. We could
not find any art in those colours (that were affordable for a bathroom!) to put on the wall. So I said, "Hey I will try and paint something." I put a fresh canvas on a wooden easel I had bought for Mark when
he had painted at my house, threw some "Starbucks" colours together for a background and then sketched out a maple leaf in the reds we were looking for, and voila, it looked okay. Since then I have just
been playing in paints, but it has been fun to see something end up on the canvas that looks okay. With time, hopefully I will learn more from Mark and others as I watch their techniques and learn more about using
media and light, design, and all the other elements of effective communication through the visual art. |
