Cloudy skies are covering us today. A few drops of rain have fallen this morning, but looks like more is coming. It is so cool that I need my sweater to go outside. Yes, it is nice and beautiful out this morning. I am so ambitious today I have already painted for two hours and gone to the art supply store and gotten a few things I needed. I will be finishing a painting that should have been completed three months ago. I have been really hung up on it, and I am now ready to say it’s finished. I will be getting the frame ready today, then as soon as the paint dries on the painting I will be posting it on my blog. It is a large painting of the cabin the “Sharp family,” built near Stonewall, Colorado, a few years ago, I hope you can see why I still long to have it back. It was a wonderful life for us while we owned that cabin, but times changed making it necessary for us to sell it. The next best thing to having the cabin back is to have a 36x48 inch painting of it hanging in my living room. I have put many hours into this piece of art, but I am proud to say I enjoyed every minute of it. I hope others will be able to view it and enjoy it also. Some of my art will be going on display in about two weeks at the Citizens Center here in Perryton. They have been patient with me while I finished the cabin on the river front.
Don’t let anyone tell you that paintings of art is easy and cheap. I know several artists, some of whom I have taken lessons with, and they all work hour after hour on one piece before it is acceptable to put out for view. Art supplies are very expensive, and it takes a lot of different stuff to complete a panting. Not to mention the many hours of stressful work that goes into it. I get the benefit of mental therapy while I am working with art, and also the pleasure of signing a piece that I am proud to show off. Art is a personal thing, and no one can ever explain the mind that created it; Although it has been tried with every piece of successful art. It can be imagined, but not proven. Only the artist can know that secret. My mind is forever seeing things I want to paint, but when only the mind sees, and not the eyes, It’s very hard to settle with only that concept. If the eyes didn’t see it, how can the artist know if its real or just wish it was real? Then there is the idea of not knowing if someone would be interested in having a piece of art that tells a mysterious story. I do plan in the near future to expand upon this idea, and let the chips fall where they may.
God Bless
Myrtle Jean Sharp
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