It's been a long winter! March is here and I'm starting to get excited again. Living in NY winters are part of who I am and I can't help that. I love all the seasons! Yes its true all of the m even winter. The great anticipation of spring is in the air and I can feel my blood start to thin. The change of the season is only weeks away and I have been boxed up in my studio working on protects for the coming year and I'm ready for great things to unfold.
I know how important the planning stages are. It's what makes all the difference in the world, as I start to roll out my new ideas and really bring them in to play. I know and understand how this works, it has been the way I have been doing it with my paintings for over 20 years. You see, I started my art career as a drawer and that is my foundation to many of my great paintings today. Taking the time to plan allows you to learn patients and mold your plan in the direction of the best out come that you could for-see. It's doesn't mean that your plan can't change the plan for better results down the road or decide to put the map a side and create your own, it's just a road map a good starting point to point you in the direction you are looking to go.
Artist sometimes try to only stick to a plan or try to follow another artists path and feel that is the way to a successful career. Fortunately for me that was never the case, I never followed and I never will. I know you're saying to yourself ya right! or you should never say never and what is it that you just said about the Map thing, Right? Well, for me I knew I was going to be an artist at a very young age and that plan was already in place before I was old enough to even know what was really going on, My first paintings of boats and landscapes at the age of five. I never defined what I was doing by what others around me where doing and Art for me was a way for me to explore and hide from the day to day life I was troubled with at a young age. (More on that to come) For me it was my passion so early on in life that I never felt that I need to follow. Even now when I am teaching workshops, I explain to my students that your biggest accomplishments as an artist will come the day you define your own style. I encourage them to use these techniques as a map or foundation to create your own style.
That being said, The planning is over and I'm ready once again to put the map aside, it's time to take a look at what my true passion is and focus in on that and be lead by my own GPS, It's time to trust my heart! In today's world finding your passion and trusting your heart are going to be the best way to find true happiness and success at what ever you are doing. It's the key! and for me right now I have always known that my Custom Paintings of Nantucket are Special and look forward to creating and sharing them with you. It soon will be spring and I will be heading to Nantucket island again :)
I specialize in custom paintings of Nantucket, Home and cottage portrait, custom views, Boat and yacht portraits. for more information go to www.christopherwheat.com
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