Path to Painting Part II

Continued from Part I:
I've also painted a few small paintings for around the house:

Here are a few paintings I did this year for Christmas Gifts:

For my grandparents who were missionaries in Africa

For my sister who doesn't see many seasons in China

I've recently finished a couple of new paintings to decorate Ashley's new house.  One of them is my first forte into abstract art.  I enjoyed it and will post a post about that one once it's hung and I get a good picture of it.  For now please feel free to check out my new Etsy shop (http://www.etsy.com/shop/OrnersCorner) which I will hopefully be updating overtime.

Update:
Here is a photo of the painting I did for Ashley's entry way.  I call it "Hand of the Maker"

Path to Painting

I recently opened a shop on a site called Etsy where people can sell handmade and vintage items.  If you've never checked it out you should.  It has some great, creative stuff.
Well since I've opened the shop I figured I would do a blog post to tell my story and show some of my paintings.  I've always been into art.  I started taking art classes as an official elective class in 6th grade.  I took it all through middle school and then in the 9th grade I was able to skip Art I in high school and start at the Art II class.  Whether it was the teacher, the subject matter (ribbons mostly) or just being in a class with kids older than me, I didn't take are class after that.  I continued to sketch off and on, one in particular I remember sketching a picture of Sarah and I at the beach while I was in college.  I don't know what happened to that though.
Then when my sister-in-law Ashley moved into her apartment after graduating from college she was looking to decorate her walls and had a picture of a daisy that she liked but she wanted the colors to be different.  Somebody (I don't remember who) said "why don't you have Ben paint it?"  Well, I wasn't totally sure I could do it since I hadn't painted anything in a long time, but I figured I'd give it a try.  And so my love for painting and art was reawakened....

Ashley's Daisy

After the Ashley's daisy I started getting requests from other people in my family to paint things...
Sarah always liked a picture she had seen of a couple dancing on the beach in the rain but our living room has a Parisian theme so I combined the two into this painting:

A Painting for Sarah

Next (I think...I can't totally remember the order), I painted more flowers for Ashley:

My mom asked for a field with flowers:

And later I painted a picture based on a photo from their trip to Italy:

Blogger must have a limit to how much I can put in one post.  So I'll have a Part II coming in a few days.  For now please feel free to check out my new Etsy shop (http://www.etsy.com/shop/OrnersCorner).

link to part 2...