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