Who Knew!!
Sit back, relax, and grab a cocktail because this might take awhile...
Growing up as an artist, my medium was pencils. I drew more portraits than anything. At about the age of 15 I stopped....not sure why. I never really touched a pencil or paint until almost 15 years later.
In this time I owned a house painting company. Days consisted of painting walls, trim, and ceilings. Real inspiring right? Actually it might have been. Spending these days painting plain walls really bored me. At the time I worked with a few high end designers and did some really cool projects for very wealthy and famous clients. Going into these homes or the designers studios and seeing the decor started to inspire me. One day I went home and just started to paint.
I finished my first painting and got the "what the hell is that thing" look from my wife. I took the painting and hid it in a closet because I actually really liked it. A few months later a good friend of mine came over and I told him I finally did a painting. Instantly he said I want to see it. I pulled it out of it's hidden place and showed him. He loved it! He said " you have to sell this, people would buy this!" What he said to me stuck in my mind for a few weeks and then I finally went for it. I posted it on Craigslist and within a day it was sold. I was shocked. I had just sold my first painting ever!
From that point I was hooked! I bought paint like it was going out of style. I bought canvases in every size, and more brushes then I could ever use. I had a drop cloth that I laid out on the floor and painted on my knees every night. They kept selling, and selling! I actually took that old drop cloth and stretched it around a frame to preserve my start in painting. I still own it to this day. A paint covered canvas with nothing but paint all over it. My first 50 paintings started on this drop cloth. (check out the photo of it in the shop photos) In the first year I sold close to 100 paintings on Craigslist. Time for galleries!! More coming soon!
