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Stephen Kneipp
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WHY PAINTING?

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

Walking to where?

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 - Desire

Some people, well most people like art of some kind or another. Everyone is attracted by one thing or another: subject matter, shapes, colors, forms, feelings, emotions, memories, nostalgia, geometrics, etc.. the list goes on forever.

In my case it probably was color. Also, it was the ‘vacuum’ in my life of knowing that I should paint something. What? I didn’t know. I still am trying to find out. But I figured I needed some basic stuff and proceeded to the library (long time ago…), and checked out a book with images of the ‘masters’ of oil painting. I thought, “If I can do what they did, then I can see if I can paint”. So, I painted some Monet and Renoir paintings and thought, uhmmm…not bad. Then we had kids and it was time to put away the painting to raise children for a few years. —stephen

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