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My Training
I
had my training at the Applied Art Academy in Akron, Ohio for four and
a half to five years in the late fifties, early sixties. My primary
focus was in industrial, commercial and advertising art. At that time
I also had classes in fine art, oil, watercolor, pastels, acrylics,
ink and pencil drawing.
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On
August 14, 2001, I had a mini stroke and when I got out of the hospital
three days later my wife and granddaughter told me they wanted me to get
back into art as therapy, and not to sit around worrying about things.
I thought I would have to start all over, for as long as I had been away.
But my training, my burning desire for creating art was not dead but lke
a fire that was just smoldering and not out, and the more I pushed myself
the more it came roaring back like an inferno.
After
just one and a half years, I started showing again. At one show, a fellow
artist saw an abstract of mine and brought an art teacher over. They started
saying how good my abstracts were, and that was what I should keep on
painting, for they showed I put my heart and soul into them. I still paint
realistic paintings, but all my portraits are a lot more loose - almost
a mix between realistic and abstract.
Now
it was if I'd had a straight jacket removed. My chains had been cut and
I was free. I no longer had to paint inside the lines. I still think about
composition, point of interest, focal points and design the same as in
realistic paintings. I'm a lot more relaxed now.
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I
am a member of:
The
Tuscarawas County Art Guild
The Tuscarawas County Center for the Arts, New Philadelphia, Ohio
The Southeastern Ohio Water
Media Society
The Coshocton Country Art Guild
The Eastern Ohio Art Guild
The Ohio Online Visual Art Register
The International Society of Experimental Artists
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