My Story on Art

Todays post is going to be a little different than my usual factual posts. This post is my story on how I started to love art.

When I was younger my sister was always outside playing all different types of sports and I would sit inside with my mother because I didn't like sports. Until I was about in the eighth grade I didn't really have something to do to spare time like my sister did with sports.

I took my first art class in the Junior High and thought "wow, this is actually really fun!". So later I went home and I asked my parents for coloring supplies for Christmas, and so they got me art supplies. I first I started out small with Disney characters like the little mermaid.

After I was over my Disney character kick I began to draw for other people because  I was told that I had a special talent with art. I thought that maybe people would pay me for some drawings but I was too afraid in the Junior High to even ask about that. I was told to draw what I love and I love action movies like Batman and Superman so that's what I started to draw. During this adventure my family bought me some more art supplies like markers and colored pens.

When I was finished my drawing of Batman and his enemies I was offered some money from people on facebook. That was weird for especially since I used to never post on facebook and never would talk to any of these people on their. I couldn't sell this one though, it was my dad's father day present. My Aunt Tina originally offered me $50 for this piece and I refused but I later got even better sketching paper and began drawing even more. Before I knew it people were asking me for drawings on facebook! I was in shock. I kept drawing and drawing every day almost and then the new Iron Man movie came out and now it is one of my favorite movies so I did one of my drawings of Iron Man. I am in the process of getting it personally framed but some friends at school wanted me to make it over and over again for them for around $30 a piece. It took me so long to perfect my original copy that I had to say no after two more of them.

Over time I kept getting requests by people for more art work. It was getting to be a lot so I had to turn down a lot of people unfortunately, but I still sold some pieces whenever I had the chance to get any done.

Drawing was like a get away for me. It is what calmed me down whenever I was upset or mad and it still does. I just did this drawing the other day and I love it but I'm going to do some more work on it before I put it up to sale yet.

When I started to learn how to spray paint galaxy's and sunsets people started to go crazy. Those painting are quick and painless but the spray paints cost a lot so I had to up my pricing a bit. I still sold over 10 paintings and I charged $50 and up depending on how big or detailed it was. That was just over one summer and if I could spray paint in the winter I would because it was like a job for me and I loved it. 



So that is my story on how I began to love art and I hope I find the perfect career to carry on my fun experiences.