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(MUSIC) Whenever you're painting and you actually lose yourself in your painting,
while you're painting,
you really just get swept away in the moment you know it's very zen i think (music)
i started doing the water paintings because some there's a creek not too far
from here called bee creek that i took my kids to one day and it was so clear and clean
and gorgeous and then i found out that it was endangerd from over
development and then when i found out i went ahead and
did a show as a benefit for the group that's trying to protect the water
just trying to portray the
clear water just is this is invaluable resource that we have
and it's so healing on so many levels, you know, to be able to get into this water and
to see the water that you know is so clean, it's like a baptism almost you know
into something you can't describe so i paint large paintings now
some of the paintings are eight feet, when people view the paintings i want them to feel like
they're there!
and these huge paintings of water and rocks and really nothing else in the
image other then what's nature what's naturally there
before when i would paint
i would try and put all of this emotion into one painting,
and really just express all these feelings and an idea that i had about
life, and
to try to make people emote, and really make people know that i feel something different,
feel something different than what they're feeling when they're viewing my painting
and now i've realized that you really can't express all those emotions into a
painting
you have to do it in your life, it's the way you live it's not necessarily your
art
but by doing your art and living in that way you can really influence people and
people can
see something in your life and that's how you can inspire!
even painting here though, it looks different all the time, you know every day
if there's clouds, if the sun's out, if it's raining
if there's water while you're there
even just working from the same location i can get
several different views,
and it's real personal to me i guess this is my view, this is what i see every
day, this is
where I live
there is so much around me, i can just go outside and take a walk through the woods down
to the water
and see so much and i take my camera and photograph the water and cactuses and
different things like that and then bring them back and put them on my
computer and and crop them, and i don't like to change it a lot usually if i'm doing
a landscape i like to keep it that way, the way that it looks,
but some of my water paintings are really trying to portray the feeling of water
it's really just kind of trying to get
the ripples and the motion and healing quality the cleansing quality of water
my mom is an artist, and she actually taught my grandmother to paint, so she was an
artist as well
and i have a twin sister who's also an artist, and then my children are now
gravitating towards that as well as far as just being interested in painting
with me and they want their own canvases, they don't want a piece of paper, they want this
large canvas! and it's it's just in our blood i think in our family, with my kids
around to makes it more fun you know they can be doing something next to me
but then there are the times where i like it to just be me, the paint, and the canvas, and
painting, getting messy and seeing what develops, you know, that's what's fun is that you
don't really know what's what you're going to paint until it's done, you have
no idea what's going on tonight even though you may be working from a
photograph, you know and if it's successful then it's very
pleasing to me and uh... rewarding!
i went through a phase of my life after i had
already felt like i completed my life's goals, you know, i was very young, i
guess because i'm pretty ambitious
anyway and and as far as knowing what my career path was going to be in
working towards that goal from a very young age,
and i really thought i'd accomplished all my goals, and i felt unfulfilled
i broke life down basically to work,
food, sleep,
you know, what else do we need? and that is where art came in, it was like the the other
elements of life that makes it worth something, it was a turning point in my life,
just because it kind of gave me a renewed sense of my own art, you know as far as
you know what is the purpose of life? and you know
what is the purpose of MY life?
it's to create! (music)