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| 12"x16" oil Price $480 |
I am tall. When I was young and healthy and relatively cute, some people would say to me, "you should be a model." No one ever said, "You should be a jockey. You should be a gymnast. or You should be a airline stewardess." I am so glad I didn't attempt to be a model. I am sure I would not be where I am today if I had and I really like where I am at today. No one ever told me I should be a doctor or lawyer or dentist or airplane pilot either. Honestly, all I ever really wanted to be was an artist. I wish I had been mature enough and believed in myself enough to have pushed to go to art school and to have been driven enough to succeed. Problem is, I wasn't. So if I had gone, I probably would have blown it. I needed to go through all the trials and made all those stupid mistakes to have learned how to appreciate the opportunities I was given. I definitely learned from the school of hard knocks. I wasted a lot of wonderful opportunities and got derailed by my bad choices, but somehow it all worked out. I learned to work hard and be frugal as a young adult by living on "The Farm," an alternative farming community. Later I became a teacher so that, as a single mom, I could see my kids during the day. Being a teacher was certainly an opportunity to fly by the seat of my pants, but I did learn to be disciplined and efficient. I learned to identify the objective and find different ways of communicating it. I ended up being a fairly decent teacher and I learned to love much about the job. Honestly my chance to be an artist came when I married a very stable, honest, man with integrity who played by the rules and had a good and stable job (pretty much the opposite of me). It also really helped my parenting. So when anyone asks me how long it takes to do a painting, I can answer them honestly and say it took a lifetime. Go Figure!
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