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With a degree in art and two dollars you can get a cup
of coffee, but that is about all you can get. I don't think anyone could ever
know everything there is to know about the production of art. Also, I think
there are as many ways to produce art as there are artists producing it. I
started making pictures when I was ten years old and have never grown tired of
the process. The images that I make don't have a deep intellectual meaning,
they are just things, places and ideas that I like. There is not one process or
medium that I like over another but, I do find myself the victim of
convenience. If I have the medium handy and a burning desire to visualize an
idea, anything will do, even roofing tar and moltare.
I guess my first love is painting or should I say
pushing paint around on a piece of stretched canvas. I love the look of
stippling with lots of dots in various colors and visual textures. As I mature
I find that the work becomes all consuming and nothing but near perfection will
do. "If an idea, a tidbit of creativity, is worth visualizing, then it is worth
the time and thought to make it the best that it can possibly be." It is my
hope that someday people will look at my art work and say :"Now there's a smart
looking piece," and want to take it home, hang it over the breakfast table and
have a cup of coffee while looking at it.
I grew up in the west Texas town of Midland, earned a
BFA in painting and minors in photography and drawing at Texas Tech University.
I moved to Southwest Texas, San Marcos, and fell in love with the trees, went
to SWT and earned another degree in Industrial Art and secondary art teaching
credentials. For the past twenty five years I have been trying to mold the
minds of our young, as a middle school art teacher and I have found a boat load
of mold. I have been in a lot of shows and been rejected from as many. I don't
produce art just for sale but I love it when someone is willing to part with
cold, hard cash for what I do.
Ultimately, if I can produce art even when all the
things in life seem to be trying to keep me from it, I will feel that I am a
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