I first began to draw when when I was 6 it was mostly fairytales snow white, Cinderella, beauty and the beast because that’s what I could relate to the most back then my life was like a fairytale.
I’ve been home schooled my whole life when I look back, I was never bored like most people would think, it was more like each and every day of my life was a new adventure, a mystery, like I don’t know what’s going to happen next …
Studied engineering in university, made a living with that profession, but made a “life”, had the fresh air with art through my 25 years out of 33 :) I have played piano for 8 years, classical guitar for about 15 years and pretty mastered it. However sketching was always a side hobby. Nowadays, I somehow feel like my music oriented “life” started to switch to drawing…
I’m a 65 years young men with a gift of God at birth. I discover that I was able to draw at a very early age, I’ll guest I was about 6 years old. I grew up drawing a lot during my early years when I discover how good I feel creating thing on paper with my own hand and brain.
When I grew up to my adolescence age I tend to slow down with my passion since I felt more responsibility getting into high school and latter on to pursue my engineering degree in civil engineering at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Nicaragua (UNAN).
I was born in the City and Port of Corinto a small Island in the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. I came with my wife to USA in 1979 and start working as an Structural engineer in the Oil and Gas Industry until my early retirement in 2011 due to illness. During my years as an Structural Engineer I start painting in different media as oil and pastel and recently in my retirement I start painting for a first time in Acrylic. Unfortunately I have not been as prolific as I would like to be with my art work…
Drawing has always been on my mind… But I had no confidence and felt intimidated when I picked up pencil and paper. I am a farm wife and allowed myself every excuse to put it aside. Raising my family and farm work took all my attention. A few years ago, now in my fifty’s, someone gave my a copy of “Drawing On The Right Side If The Brain” it gave me some skills to build on, I felt so empowered! …
In my journey searching for fine art started with a broken leg and when my spirited self wanting to get out of that painful situation an take myself away to somewhere unfamiliar and very beautiful. This resulting not only I found my place and Web Academy online course too. Web Academy answered lots of question I had for years on painting well. And in the process of all the endeavors my leg got better too! Among st all the daily family demands I paint and draw whenever I can and with lots more pleasure Further more I can bravely received everyday situation with lots more imagination…
As far as I can remember, I always admired artists with their beautiful renditions and artworks. I even tried my hand at drawing when a fellow student in my class (about 30 years ago) drew cartoonish female drawings and I decided there and then, that I want to be an artist…
I was always fascinated by the different world cultures and people who lived them, so people became my subject of art at a young age.
I paint people in everyday settings in oil on canvas. I do some landscape and seascapes, but painting people is my true desire.
Why I need to win…
Dreams and fantasies have always been an inseparable part of my existence, ever since my childhood. As an introvert child, I remember constantly flying away to my world of make-believe, much to the annoyance of my elders.
Even as I grew older, the dreamy child within me refused to grow up. She still wanted to fly…
I’m a self-taught painter, started painting 2 years ago, and I really need to get to a higher level whether by studying academically or continuing with the self-teaching process. So I do think that the course will really help me do this.
My earliest memories of drawing and painting were formed before I was seven. Throughout my school years, drawing was integral to my experience; my father purchased my first easel when I was about 12, and in both Junior High and High School, I received honorable mention for various compositions.
Moreover I continue to pursue studio and drawing courses in college and at the Cleveland Museum of Art: graphite, pen and ink, pastel (dry and oil), water color and oil painting (with which I fell love) are the mediums with which I have continued to experiment. This training brought me in touch with the works of artistic masters of the Renaissance period; it was during this time during my formative years, that I was smitten by the exquisite draftsmanship of Leonardo da Vinci, with his incredible attention to detail of the human body and plant life. It was in this context of experience that the love of capturing natural phenomenon, from an artistic perspective, was sown in my heart…