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The Art Gallery
About me
As far back as I can remember, I've always been interested in being an artist. Starting in my kindergarten class in Chicago,Il we were coloring a tiger. My teacher told me to make the orange color darker so it would stand out. When I was in high school in Dallas,Tx. part of our class or homework assignments was to draw something related to the subject. I would charge 50 cent per drawing for my classmates. One drawing I did for a classmate looked so "real" the teacher accused him of tracing it. The drawing was so realistic my classmate ask me could I mess it up a little bit. I began to study Architectural at El Centro College in Dallas, but art was still in my heart. One day I was sitting in a lawyers office and I was telling him I was taking Architectural in college, also there was a big oil painting behind his desk I was admiring. He told me I wouldn't make it as a architect, I said "why not" baffled and offended! He said because you enjoy your freedom as an "artist". Sometimes other people can see potentials in us and he was a "piece" of this puzzle , I'll explain later. I had a male college instructor "another piece" who I taken a class with 2 years earlier. I've pass his drawing class once and knew I could glide through this harder, upgraded class. I was coloring a tiger cub with color pencil but rushing to finish it quickly. I stopped my instructor and ask him "how you like my drawing"? He said flat out "erase that" it look like kiddie scribble and make that look like real fur! I was hotter than a bottle of tabasco sauce left on a barbecue grill ! I started erasing and re coloring the picture saying "I'll show him"! He came back later and said "that looks fine"! He knew what I can do and accepted nothing less. In fact it was one of the drawings he used for his slide show in class. My last year in college I took a class in oil painting. My instructor taught us how to stretch and gesso our canvas before painting. This is when I started experimenting with different shape to make my canvas. She also inform me about balancing my colors to give my paintings more symmetry. All of these people and many more were the "pieces" that made this puzzle "me", because I choose to listen to them. I've done artwork for commisions, been in local Dallas art shows and was on Artexchange.com for a couple of years. Because I do realistic art, I'm branching out using more colorful work in abstract, expanding more "freedom" in art.
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