Artwork by Susie Davis

Creativity Junkie

I am 57 and have been a life long creative devotee. I chose music as my art form and found that in order to make a living as a musician that I needed to funnel all of my time into developing quite the extensive amount of variable talents.

During my career I have performed for 80,000 people and for 8, toured internationally, sung on hit records, played in wedding bands, music directed plays, written jingles, lead original bands, become a multi-instrumentalist, produced records and taught piano, guitar, accordion, vocals, and songwriting to kids and adults.

Four years ago I suffered a nerve injury that forced me to quit my band. During my convalescence I started drawing and found that I enjoyed it tremendously. Now I am in a different phase of my life, where I am mostly teaching, and find that I am just not that compelled by music as my route of creative expression.

I have always been drawn to the graphic arts, but with my busy career as a musician, I never had the time to pursue developing my skills in that field.

Last Fall I enrolled in a local community college drawing class and started producing my first pieces. I love being in the beginning of the learning process. I am not in any hurry to produce anything incredible, I just want to learn some basic skill and get my brain to understand this stuff.

I figure if I can draw for 10 hours a week for the next 20 years, by the time I am 77 I will have become an artist capable of realizing my visions and that’s an exciting idea!

Drawing Academy provides great information! Looking forward to taking the course.

To help me on this crazy and confusing path of expressing myself though the graphic arts!

Vote for me because I have proven that I am devoted to the creative process by making a living as a musician for the last 40 years.

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