The Art Of...

Okay, so most of you know that I have a love for art. Sketching, painting, crafting, photography, Drawing etc...

I believe my talent runs in the art field. It has always been in my family but somehow missed my immediate family. My grandmother and grandfather BOTH could draw like nobody's business and even some aunts and uncles are very heavily gifted. None of which attended school for it.

I never attended school for art either. I feel that if I had I may have become someone different, getting to express and USE my talents.

Instead I went to college for Radiology. I didn't get to finish my degree. I was 2 years short of completion when I got married to J. From there, God had HIS own plans for my life. (Well from the very beginning of my life, HE had plans. but you get the picture...)

So in all the 7 years I have been married to J. Wait... 6? or 7? hmmm oh, 6! 2004-2010 :). okay so (I didn't go to school for math either) in all the time that we have been married I have never really pursued any passion of mine. Such as art, in any form or fashion. I mean I have started a few different scrapbooks but they only go 2 pages in and I have also painted some fun canvas' for some friends but that was FOR someone to bless them or their children.

Now I have been venturing into photography. I have a LOT to learn still but it is a different kind of art in and of itself. I love everything about it... minus the numbers and coordinating numbers thing...

But just the idea of capturing people in the moment is intriguing to me. The ways that you can capture people to create just the right mood or conversation in the pictures. You want your pictures to tell a story all their own, without a caption explaining what was going on.

Get rid of the stacked 5 subjects with pasted on smiles just staring into your lens for a "snap shot" to say "this is our family picture", let them LIVE in the moment and BE a family of 5 (or how many ever there are).


I love for people to interact with their surroundings, to become a part of the moment they are getting captured in.


I have always loved going back through my photographs (from when I was younger even... ones that my mother took as we were growing up.) I love seeing all that was going on in the pictures. What were people doing. What feeling was captured at that time. Was it a happy time or a frustrated time and if so what was going on around me/others. So with that I have always wanted to take pictures that told stories.

Given the circumstances I will take whatever the person wants even if that means "stacking" them and "saying cheese" BUT I want to just experiment... to create a different effect for those less daring. Capture a picture that says a million words.




What kind of art do you like?