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My First Blog / My decision to blog!

8/10/2016

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Welcome to my first blog!

I have procrastinated and avoided ever making a blog. I would much rather spend my time painting in studio than writing about myself or sharing about some wisdom I gained in whatever. However, time and time again I am told that my website is missing a blog and those younger than myself keep telling me that it is what people want and not to mention the internet geniuses tel me that I must.  Still I avoided it. Not because I think they are wrong but because I have a hard time writing about myself when there is art to be done. But then comes my students, who I care very much about, say to me time and time again, "I've never heard that before" or "No one has ever put it like that".  Time and time again I get more students because they tell others that my teaching is different from the traditional classes they have taken.  Now this is not to say that I'm an amazing person or that I am an inspirational guru of some type.  I decided to write a blog simply on the basis that I love to teach art. Because many are led astray as to what art really is.  I write this blog on the off chance that someone might hit it by accident and maybe learn something that maybe would inspire them to create from themselves than to follow a discipline of have-tos that makes art more work than freedom. 
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In the Begining

1/1/2016

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Welcome to the page about me.  Not my favorite topic but as the artist, people want to know a little about us.  So I indulge the fans. So please enjoy and try not to get bored.
  I began art an early age.  As soon as I could pick up a pencil in fact. All through school it was always my favorite subject.  I often drew things for others and helped others with their drawings.  I had a revelation into my talent being above average when in the 4th grade school wide, art contest I won no awards. I know that doesn't make sense but just bear with me.  I didn't feel I deserved an award but in this particular contest  there was awards for pretty much everything including the covetous 'good try award'.  My teacher saw me looking disappointed and let me know that the fifth graders who judged our class thought I traced my art. Of course I was upset for the whole day, maybe a week, or maybe a month who can remember, but I soon realized that my drawings that I drew of animals made people think that I traced, then they have to be pretty good.  It was at that time that I started to take art seriously.  I trained myself and learned different methods and techniques by trial and error.  I never had the opportunity to take a class or course in art.  There wasn't much opportunity for art in a small town in Idaho and growing up poor My parents were much more concerned with food than art, which they later expressed had no future. I played with art through High school which means outside the one art elective a year, I doodled in my notebook margins and drew comic book heroes with my brothers at the kitchen table all night long. My high school art program in a bigger town in Minnesota didnt offer much for learning art either. I remember my first extra art elective my junior year which was titled Studio Arts II.  I was excited because I thought that it was going to be my first real art class.  Once the class started I walked in to see a class full of freshmen.  I soon realized that studio arts 2 was just an opportunity to continue playing with the same art supplies as studio arts 1. Nothing extra nothing more, the only privilege was that I had no assignments, I got to sit the whole period and do whatever i wanted.  I was hoping for more, maybe training, maybe art from a master, not just another class that solidified my whole upbringing of art which was art was just a hobby or an unproductive use of time. 
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