by Carol on 4/8/2009 11:27:43 AM
First painting I sold who was not a friend.
(These next several blogs are inspired by a Facebook challenge to write 25 Random Things about My Art Business. Enjoy and I look foward to your comments.)
1.When I 36 years old I started to paint, after many years as an educational psychologist and corporate trainer. In January 1987, my late mother-in-law re-introduced me to painting an in a very short time, my career in the business world was over - dissolved in a torrent of watercolor. Everything I had been trained to do in graduate school, a steady paycheck, the daily routines of meetings & reports were left behind. By 1991 I was bucking the system and creating artwork full-time.
2. Throughout my K-12 school years, I drew, painted, sewed, built things out of wood, worked in paper mache and attended small group art lessons after school. I received my frist blue ribbon for an oil painting at the age of 14, but artmaking stopped around the age of 20 for more stable forms of generating income. I walked the halls of public schools as a school psychologist for 5 plus years prior to working in various training departments in high tech companies.
3. Marrying in 1983, at the age of 32, introduced me into a musical and artistic family. My mother-in-law, Emily Ann, learned of my sealed and hidden artistic vault, so she began encouraging me to begin making art again. We did not live in the same state, causing her to send me art books, a set of colored pencils (that I cherish to this day), sketch books, etc. Emily Ann and husband Jack gave me my first set of watercolor paints and brushes in 1987. I dipped my brush in and began.
...To be continued
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