When I was a child taking oil painting classes, long before my own framed oil paintings, I would marvel at how you could work paint in a way that resembled realism. I would ask my teacher how the artist created that effect without using what I would call then "the right color". Thats when I learned that the value of colors, not the colors themselves are more important. It was only a few weeks later when I got the point and decided to try my own original paintings. My teacher supported me the entire way and the rest as you would say is history. I haven't had a chance to see her since she retired 3 years ago, but I know she would be really proud to see that I have my own business offering my original framed oil paintings to the world.

  I guess you could say that I paint to see how "real" I can paint my "fantasy world" as one of my artist friends have said in the past. I love being the creator and depicting miles of land with my brush and having viewers say it looks "3-D". Yes I guess it goes back to my early days where I found the beauty of creating a three dimensional image on a two dimensional surface while using the "wrong" colors to boot. Thats magic to me, and thats why I paint.
 
  Thats all for today so as always, feel free to share your thoughts by leaving a post and I'll see you on Friday.