a little bit of me and my artwork :)
Hiya sistahs!
So if you ever ask yourselves what I do to unwind (cuz I am SURE that’s what you ALL ask yourselves LOL).. I will answer that question here 🙂
I Paint.
I collage.
I get messy.
I splatter
I splootch
and then I try to make sense of it all. LOL
I started painting about 4 years ago.. I have always wanted to paint and draw and never had the guts to try.. whenever I drew as a kid I was shot down.. I think it became a part of my subconscious and I always pushed that voice away. My great aunt was an artist.. I remember going to her house as a kid and saw her drawing table.. her bottles of watercolors.. her brushes and would ALWAYS want to be in that room. When she asked where I would like to go, I remember always saying the art supply store.. LOL.. not much has changed 35 years later.
4 years ago I decided, that’s IT. I cannot squash this voice anymore.. this pull.. this tug. So I went for it. HEAD FIRST. KNEE DEEP. And have never looked back. I have taken many online classes.. have studied books.. but really I have followed my heart and my own intuition.
Now me displaying my work is hard for me.. i feel naked so to speak.. exposed. I don’t know if anyone will like it…. or understand it.. or understand how I FELT while painting it.. But I have shown my work to a few people and they urged me to sell my work. SELL MY WORK? what ? are they INSANE? and then I continued to work in my little messy room and found myself with many unfinished pieces.. so I decided.. with MUCH prodding that I will start selling my work.. whether people like it or not? I don’t know. Would they actually hang it in their homes? who knows.. but the thought of a little piece of me somewhere else to be loved and cherished makes me happy (shhh don’t tell anybody). I have two pieces hanging at my best friends house.. and every time I see her looking at them, I see how much she loves them.. and THAT, my sistahs, makes me happy.
I am not saying that my stamps don’t make me happy.. cuz they DOO!!! And I still work on other people’s artwork all day for the stamps.. but sometimes, I need to work on me too.. does that make any sense at all?
So I will be updating this website Under ORIGINAL ARTWORK and will post new paintings all the time :). Obviously it all looks better in real life 🙂
so hope you enjoy a little piece of me displayed on your monitor 🙂
and there you have it.. a little bit of me… A little bit of VULNERABLE me…
mwah to da sistahs who took a look and smiled 🙂
Em