A Commissioned Artist.

I am now a commissioned artist, which just happens to be a HUGE deal for me. Through out my art career, a career of about 3 years, I have never really had anyone request a painting from me. But now ever sense one of my friends requested I did a painting for him things have changed. This painting was an impressionistic painting of what I thought of him. And honestly knowing him then and now, I think I would do the painting differently. But that is because I am simply a perfectionist. And that was the start of it all…Now I have several requested and four on order…before Christmas. Today just happens to be the 19th of December. So today instead of doing the thousands of other things I could being doing, I am staying home and painting. Sitting on my bed, watching a movie, and painting, this is simple perfection. And sense I am on a new journey of painting not for myself but for others….others that are paying for it…I have decided to let the world be involved in my attempt of progression. The four I have to complete before Christmas are a set of three corresponding paintings of country chickens, and a realistic painting of Wyoming. To begin to explain my views of art…I am a lover of the feeling of art. It does not have to be pretty or good…it just has to make me feel something. So I would prefer for my art to have some feeling in them. But of course I am compromising, I am currently painting decorative paintings of chickens. I don’t mean to sound belittling or above decorative painting, it’s just a simple lack of ambition. But now I have 1 and ¾ paintings completed and one to go…But these paintings are fun, full of color and sunshine. Then lastly we have the dreaded painting of Wyoming. I do currently live in Wyoming but there is a lack of inspiration. So everyday as I drive the hour long drive to and from work I watch the world around me trying to find the thing that I want to put on a canvas. Simply, I have not found that one thing. But I will paint and I will paint Wyoming. I will try to keep you updated.