My Artistic Side

Every since I was a kid I have been fascinated by art. I remember drawing everything I could, freehand. When I was about 10, I free-handed a whimsical unicorn that my mom had on a collectors plate. I just looked at the unicorn and drew. I remember cutting it out and showing it to my mom. It was almost exactly to scale, and very detailed. I remember how proud I was when it was finished, even though I drew with a blue ball-point pen. I remember around that same time I created my own cartoon characters. I think they were a family of monsters. Although, they were essentially the same character, they were very different. I remember wanting to draw like my mom and paint like her mom. Between dreaming of becoming a veterinarian or a doctor, I dreamt of being an artist.

I don't really know what happened, but one day I just stopped creating. I'm not sure if the life of a teenager got in the way, or what. I never lost that passion, or desire for art. I just stopped creating. I remember my mom's mom informing me there was no such thing as purple mountains, after I proudly showed her a painting I had done based on one of her own paintings. Which, by the way, her mountains were in fact purple! Maybe it was her comment alone, that made me put down the paint brushes and pencils and pastels.

Over the years I've tried to motivate and inspire myself to create more and more. Most of the time I get side tracked with life, but since moving to Denmark, I've felt the need to be more creative. Not to mention, I finally have the time to put into my painting. 

So, you want to see some of the paintings I've done? 

Please, try not to be too harsh, I'm still learning to like my own work.

This one currently hangs in my living room. A friend once described it as a dart player's worse nightmare.

I apologize for the terrible quality of some of these pictures, I would re-take them, but I no longer have the paintings.

I painted this one on an old drawer front.

Photo taken before the painting was complete.

This was a painting I did for my sister in-law Mathilde.

This one isn't finished yet, but it seems to be taking me a very long time finish it.

Now that you've seen some of them, what are your thoughts?