Visual Art – Dallas - Fort Worth
I am a teacher by profession and only did art as a hobby as part of my therapy after being diagnosed with MDD/GAD (Major depressive disorder/Generalized anxiety disorder) I have always been an art lover (i took an art class in middle school to get out of PE, and found i had a talent for it. all through high school i mostly stuck to pencil and charcoal sketches/portraits) but never in a a million years did I ever consider myself an artist of any kind. And yet here I am, filling out an Artist Bio! I took an art class at my local community college just to give it a try and started with acrylics. Being a perfectionist, I was terrified when my professor did not 'instruct' us on anything, he just put the still life in the center of the room and told us to paint it. It was very frustrating at first but soon fell in love with the process and the mess and how I could lose myself in it for hours. After that summer I was hooked. I only started dabbling in watercolors about a year ago. It was on a whim; i felt i was stuck in a rut with what i was currently working on and so gave watercolor a try with some old watercolor cakes i had been given back when i was 18! I have since moved on to better quality paint and an actual small studio in my home. Watercolor was not what I envisioned myself really getting into and being any good at, but here we are! I think what attracts me the most about this medium is the movement of the colors and the paint on the canvas. How they bleed and mingle with each other. It's very relaxing and cathartic for me. When I paint, my mind is not doing anything else, and it quiets my thoughts that can get overwhelming at times.
I am so thankful to have this outlet and this one thing that is my own personal space and experience.