My Art Page

My Art

Since I was five years old, or maybe back in the womb, I wanted to be an artist. When I was a kid, I spent hours drawing sketches of everything. I had an Aunt Minnie who lived in Illinois while I was living in Iowa. She'd mail me postcards with her watercolor drawings, and in turn, I'd mail her back my drawings, mostly of birds, which I eventually turned into a whole book by the time I was ten, with each bird drawn in pencil, colored in with colored pencils, and labeled neatly. I haven't drawn a bird since, so I wonder now why I was so fascinated with drawing birds back then. I only met my Aunt Minnie once, at a funeral for some relative I didn't know. I was excited to meet her, but so shy that I walked up to her to tell her who I was, got nervous, and left without exchanging a word. No matter, I guess, since my lasting memories of her should remain in our exchange of art, not as a brief meeting between "strangers" after a funeral service.

My art is mostly a mish-mash of everything because I love looking at all art and doing all kinds of art. I used to wish I could settle on one kind of media, but I like all of them: watercolor, oil, pastel, colored pencils, acrylics, charcoal, stone sculpture, clay molding. So, I never get really good at any one media. My art teachers tell me I am mostly an expressionist, but I never really stick to one style either. No regrets, I guess, because artists rarely make a living at what they are doing, so why not be versatile?

I don't know how to categorize my art. The links below are sort of categorized to the best I can do. Click on them if you want to see some of what I've done. Currently I'm really interested in stone sculpture, but I have no pics of my sculptures, so can't put on my page yet.

Self-Portraits
Human Figure
Mixed Media
Misc
Still Life & Landscape

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