People often ask me if I have taken classes in art or if I went to college for art, my answer to them is simply 'no'. I am a self taught artist. I've been doodling and drawing for years, but it was only something I did while zoning out of boring lectures, classes and Sunday services at church.
I ended up taking one painting course in H.S. because I wanted to escape books and equations. I wasn’t' interested in many of the painting projects because they were boring and the visual elements were lame. However, there was one project that laid a seed within me to enjoy brushing paint upon a hard canvas. That was a project to recreate a famous work of art. I could choose anything appropriate for school.
The work that sparked my attention is the most often reproduced and widely known work of the German artist Albrecht Dürer. This gray and white brush drawing on blue-grounded paper, entitled the "Hands of the Apostle," generally known as "The Praying Hands" was the start of it all. Below is the actual image and below that is my own creation from 2003. I added my own element of the color purple.
After the course was complete, I gifted the painting to a dear friend because she had a strong relationship with the lord. I thought it was foolish to hold onto my works of art in H.S. because I was too cool for school. Oh how my perspective on life has since changed.
I ended up taking one painting course in H.S. because I wanted to escape books and equations. I wasn’t' interested in many of the painting projects because they were boring and the visual elements were lame. However, there was one project that laid a seed within me to enjoy brushing paint upon a hard canvas. That was a project to recreate a famous work of art. I could choose anything appropriate for school.
The work that sparked my attention is the most often reproduced and widely known work of the German artist Albrecht Dürer. This gray and white brush drawing on blue-grounded paper, entitled the "Hands of the Apostle," generally known as "The Praying Hands" was the start of it all. Below is the actual image and below that is my own creation from 2003. I added my own element of the color purple.
After the course was complete, I gifted the painting to a dear friend because she had a strong relationship with the lord. I thought it was foolish to hold onto my works of art in H.S. because I was too cool for school. Oh how my perspective on life has since changed.
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| 'Hands of the Apostle' Albrecht Dürer |
