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....
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| Ashley's Daisy |
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:
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| A Painting for Sarah |
My mom asked for a field with flowers:
link to part 2...
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