Experts From An Artist Interview

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Video #1:

There's a sermon that you want in every painting. You want it to say something. Are they different sermons in each painting or is there an overall theme? I want people to see the hand of God in their life. I want them to feel his love for them. And to me, painting the landscape expresses just wonderment that God would create this beautiful place just for our schoolyard, just for a temporary school for us to come and learn and experience and grow. 

Video #2:

My grandfather and my grandmother had both been painters, amateur painters, and given me supplies. So, I had paint.

My first oil painting was in third grade. I already knew I didn't like oil paint. But what I didn't know was that the reason I didn't like it was because grandma was giving me the almost dry dregs of the paint by number pots.

They was sticky and kind of not very much fun. In Bev Meyers's class, I learned what that baby food jar of oil was. That is linseed oil that you can mix with your paint and you can make it flow and all kinds of things. The almost dried up sticky paint perception that I had as a child really wasn't true. And I began to learn how to manipulate the paint in a way to express with it.

Probably the same way a child learns how to put letters together and can start expressing themselves with words. For me, that was so eye opening.

Video #3:

The teacher was a woman from California passing through. Her name was Bev Meyers and she had kind of a unique method to teach called the paint along method. You mentioned what's that you watched Bob Ross and his you know happy trees and he had a formula and a method and Bev Meyers had a method where she'd say we're going to mix this color and this color and then we're going to do this over the sky and then we're going to mix and we're going to put this on. And this paint-a-long method made it so that anybody could do this really fast and really easy. And in an evening you have a painting. Oh my gosh, was that fun. I began painting every day. Everything I'd see, oh, I want to paint that. I can make that. I could do that. I could recreate that. I painted it every day. I loved it.

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