GREEN BIKE BLOG

WHY PAINTING?

If a person is going to paint, they will paint. Whether they are good may be relative as well as irrelevant. —stephen

20250619- Been painting at a much slower rate now. My motivation has been interrupted for some reason. If I need to come up with a reason it could be my lack of professional training. Meaning, I either need to take some art lessons at the nearby junior college, or make time to watch some more videos online, of which there are many.

Currently, some friends have asked me to do a commission and I accepted. I visited their home at their request and got some background details on why they wanted a painting. Seems a location in their house has special meaning, and they wished it captured for posterity in the later years to remind them of an era. It is a great idea.

—Stephen

PAINTING - Curiosity

Can I paint? I mean everyone can paint if they want to. Why don’t they?

When the kids got old enough and moved out of the house, we had our son’s lizard in a large cage on the dresser in one bedroom; …. don’t ask. But we had another bedroom that I could use to paint? My wife and I talked it over and we decided that I could set up in there, but if someone was coming to visit (which was rare), we would move the lizard into the paint room for the time being and just shut the door.

So I now had a place to find out just what it is I wanted to paint.

Stephen KneippAugust 28, 20191 Comment