Even snowmen need a little fun sometimes. My friend here is taking a slide down a snow covered hill. The picture is 8×12 and done in acrylics.
#Tim the artist
#566 of 1001 The Furst Gnome Ringing In The New Year
The Furst Gnome is strumming his guitar, warming up his voice to ring out the old and rally in the new. Happy New Year to all my readers and friends. The drawing is done in pencil on a half of an old file folder.
#563 of 1001 Little Church Down the Lane
I sometimes just like to sit down and draw. The little church is one of those drawings. A simple pen drawing on an old book page.
#549 of 1001 The Christmas Tree is Aglow
The one was created on 6×9 card stock using acrylic paints and a q-tip and a pencil eraser.
#487 Pink Flower on Wood
I don’t usually paint on wood but thought I would, no pun intended, give it a try. The painting of a pink flower is on a 18×6 piece of wood and was done in acrylics. I may try some more on wood in the future.
#483 Flowers in Old Coffee Pot
An abstract painting of flowers created on an 8×11 old book page. I used hard pastels for the coffee pot then wet them with a paint brush. The flowers are also went hard pastel for the base color then used color pencil to add more color.
An Accidental Artist
I have very limited art training. The sum total of my formal training being a few classes at the local community college. I am what I call an accidental artist. I stumbled into it because I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles Schulz. I started drawing my own cartoons based on a cat I used to have.
I then moved on to silly cartoons panels. I even got to the point where I would send my cartoons out, yes send them out, to the big agencies. Most just sent back the standard, “Don’t call us we’ll call you,” letter.
A little while later I took a class on pastels. I loved and still love the ease of use of soft pastels. Now oil pastels are a little more difficult to use but I love the brilliance of the colors. Today I have branched out to all mediums.
What is the point of this whole ramble? Just this, do not devalue you artistic ability just because you’re what I call an accidental artist. Someone who just for the shear joy…creates. An artist is an artist.
#479 The Fisherman
A small 6×9 abstract pastel painting of a boy fishing. The picture was created on a piece of Strathmore drawing paper. I spent the day at the beach. I don’t go into the water. I just enjoy looking out over God’s creation. It inspires me. My advice today is to take some time and enjoy what is around you.
#456 Floating Along
Floating Along is a 9×12 painting done in Nu Pastel soft pastels on a grey piece of card stock paper. The picture of course is actually made up of a little girl, who dreamily rides along in her little paper where she encounters a giant sea gull wading in water near sea shore. The idea of the painting is the fact that as we float along in life we never know who or what we are going to come in touch. This is why we need pray each morning thanking Jesus he is there to guide as we travel along in our little paper boat.
