Art has been my passion since I was young, but could not pursue seriously as life pulled me in different directions. I recently retired and decided to rekindle my passion in art. I never had any formal training, and initially looked at several online resources and started sketching still life and portraits. While I could copy from photos reasonably well, I really wanted to master various techniques the right way.
I love to draw and want to be able to do portraits from live models and sell my art and get well know
I have been drawing since I was a child and when I do is like time stops. I could be drawing for hours and don’t feel hungry, tired or wanting to stop. I am inclined to representational and figurative art and have an immense admiration for the style of the old masters.
Hi my name is David A. Steenblock. I am a veteran that served in the US Army and now I am doing my best to become a professional artist. For me, art has become very important to my life. It has because I feel fulfilled when I draw or paint, there is nothing quite like it. I have been practicing the left few years to become a better artist.
Its been my lifelong dream to be an artist but for several reasons I have been unable to pursue my dream until recently and at a later stage of my life. Art is the language of my soul and I yearn to learn the techniques to express my thoughts and visions of the world around me as I see it.
At the age of 16, I gave up art for a career path in science and subsequently law. In retirement, I‘ve returned to my artistic roots and threw myself into painting and drawing using internet resources that were not previously available to me. I’ve been in suspended animation for fifty years and need to catch up.
Hi I am 40 a mother of four children , one boy and three girls. When I left school I headed to art college and it was amazing , being creative and drawing is in my soul from an early age I could draw brilliantly, but due to my parents splitting up I left my dream courses, I didn’t handle well at all, this has been the biggest regret in my life.
My name is Aleks I’m an avid reader and was a writer however after some time I started to lose my interest in writing and could not pursue it any longer. Not in the way I wanted to anyways.
I am a 67-year-old artist that is self-taught. I began my love of art as a very young child and presented anyone and everyone a piece (or more) of art regardless if they wanted it or not. Seriously, I began my art career when I was 15. I began with portraits made from the wallet sized senior pictures of my friends and family.
My name is Mary O’Donnell and I am a special education English teacher. Two years ago, I lost my beloved aunt that was like a mother to me, then I lost vision in my left eye. I was at a loss for what to do in order to move past the hardest time of my life. I thought about my aunt who loved to paint, and in her memory, I began to paint and draw in order to strengthen my remaining eye. I fell in love with art, and have been teaching myself how to draw and paint ever since. It has been such a fun journey, but there are challenges when trying to teach myself drawing.
