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Why Do I Do It?

 I had been a software engineer for so very long, but that well is empty and I've moved on.  I've got time on my hands and thus I picked up a pencil and brush.  I went back to my youth and wanted to give art a shot.


Art has been go to me now.  I found a niche and I and other like my work.  I'm still working on finding another style and that my be a longer journey.  Until then people ask me if I sell any of the work.  I've given some away, sold other specific pieces (because the subject, house, cat, etc.) for the cost of the frame, but other than that, I have not tried to sell my work.  Letting go a piece is on a case by case basis.

I will let non-profits use some of my images for their benefit and I'm find with that.  It's not bout the money for me, it's about me being able to create something that people (and myself) enjoy.

I ran into (via email) another artist that does beautiful landscapes.  Such colors.  And she, like myself also does not try to sell her painting.  She called it something like "self gratification".  I like that.

My gratification comes from being able to produce something that I like with the style I'm looking for. sometimes an accident or from practice.  

Of course Bobbie is getting a wee bit tired of all the picture frames in my studio so I need to rotate them after a bit.

The other reason I enjoy art is that my kids like my artwork and they will have something that I touched long after I'm gone.


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