A Passion for Painting
Do you have a passion that inspires you to create every day? Not for money, but for the pure love of doing it? This month’s featured artist has a passion for painting.
He grew up during the bleak days of bombing during World War 2 in the North of England, but the blacked out windows or the dim light of the Anderson Shelters couldn’t snuff out the colors of this little boy’s imagination. He would draw on any scrap of paper he could find, made colorful collages out of comic books, and fashion bright yellow clothes for his toy soldiers out of old scraps.
After serving time in the army and traveling around the world, he turned his passion for painting toward learning to be an interior decorator and specialized in faux marble and faux wood grains. His work was so realistic, he traveled around Britain painting one of the Rolling Stones’ Kensington pad to the first television sets for Coronation Street, a long running soap opera.
When he retired from painting and decorating, he turned his attention to oil colors and concentrated on the human form. What is so extraordinary about him is that he doesn’t do it for the money (up to now, he refuses to sell his work) or publicity (he prefers to remain
anonymous), but for his passion.
How many of us can say we’ve found something we love so much we will devote our lives to doing it even when we retire?
A modern take on the Statue of Liberty
The Splitting of Marilyn
Courtney Love?
Every Artist must have his blue period
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Contents
Letters from London
Venice Carnival
Bellinis
Make a Mask
Make-up Clutch
Vamp it Up! Apron
Heart Shaped Bear
Passion for Painting
Credit Crunch Charity Challenge