Participating Artist

I  paint as often as possible, trying to but never catching up for lost time or opportunity.  Every day is a  journey.

I started painting in 2005 and painted 20 to 30 paintings during the next four years.  It was then, that I started calling myself an artist.  Call it audacious, egotistical arrogant or just stupid but In 2010  having no art education or training and having painted only twenty or thirty paintings I decided I could teach other people to paint and opened “Paint Along Studios”.  I don’t know whether I taught anyone else to paint, but I taught myself to paint. I contracted poliu as a child.  I was unable to participate in sports and other physical activity so I passed time drawing, coloring, constructing and painting with water colors.

I painted a little in High School and still occasionally said, “When I grow up I’m going to be an artist”. I guess I’ve grown up.