Marriage is by far the best thing I’ve done with my life because it changed me from being a solitary artist/dreamer to being a husband and father right away.
For the first few years of married life with our babies it was still easy creating abstract expression paintings, but once my girls started discovering creativity, dad became a favorite target for drawing their favorite animals.
Daddy draw me a horsey.
I realized that after doing this a few dozen times, I liked drawing and creating paintings of my girls favorite animals and I continued with it, even as they grew out of coloring and drawing, to focus on their other interests.
This was when I really began to define my own personal artistic style because I was focusing on a subject that was import to me while also keeping my artwork going through my 30’s and into my 40’s.
From drawing pictures of horses and dinosaurs, I quickly started working on larger wildlife paintings of humpback whales, sea turtles, fish schools and other ocean life. I really connected with creating paintings of ocean life because the oceans are constantly changing and remains the most important resources on earth.
Growing And Changing
As an artist I believe you always have to keep growing and changing or else your work grows stale.
Over the years I’ve continued creating new wildlife art but I’ve let my creative expression run wild as I’ve reached back into my abstract expression past at times to create hybrid wildlife art that’s fun, brings new life to any space and is more than just a boring wildlife painting.
It’s my hope that more artists and creative people realize that art can be anything they want it to be and their ‘art’ is only bound by the limits of their imagination.
I’ve had many happy nights creating new artwork and it’s something that I look forward to continuing with as I grow older because I think the world needs artists to shed attention on beautiful things that other people often overlook.