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Originally Posted by peppy
The painting is 9X12 and is the 3rd painting that he has done. I'm asking because this person is wanting to pursue this as a career.
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As far as giving your friend advice, I got nothing.
I can, however, describe the choices I’ve made.
I discovered drums in junior high, age 10. At age 18 I was teaching with about 40 students some of whom were in competition at the national level on the snare. I was gigging in a jazz combo, a wedding band and jamming when I had the time. I lived everything you’ve ever seen and read about the drummer in the band. Then all of a sudden, everybody, including the National Merit Scholars people, my high school counselor and my dad who was a bricklayer (who also inadvertently taught me that I did not want to be a bricklayer, much to his disappointment) was telling me that I needed to go to college.
Adios music career.
Then, many years later in retirement came painting. I had sketched my whole life and decided to take a year of life drawing and art history at community college. I put down the pencils and picked up the brushes. After retirement I became, let’s say, obsessed. An intervention became necessary. I was not taking care of myself, not eating right, hardly sleeping, my comprehension of time went away and my thinking began to make not so much sense.
So long painting. My art room sits, to this very day, untouched.
But, I am alive to tell the tale and thankful that I survived. Twice.
Choices.