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How I Became An Artist...
What has always thrilled me is the presence in my life of creativity expressed out loud - whether I’m at another person’s performance in music, theatre, film, dance, or viewing art in a gallery or online - I want to be startled awake with it... even if it’s a quiet song, or a pastel scene, I want to feel it intensely. And when I am actively expressing myself in any of those ways, I am my most alive!
Because of this innate thirst in me, I was powerfully influenced as a child growing up - watching all the movie musicals of the 1940’s and 50’s - with the glamour and the gowns and the lights and the dancing, dazzled by the flash and brilliance of the spotlights on faces -
Oh, how I love faces!
In high school I began to draw and paint fashionable women and ballet dancers and always faces, faces. Later, in art school I was taught to sketch the naked human figure from live models, and to paint portraits from live models wearing clothes.
From there, I grew up and became a professional artist and illustrator for the next 40 years, beginning with drawing fashion illustrations for newspaper ads for department stores, then becoming a graphic designer, art director and creative director, and eventually a portraitist.
I’ve loved it all and I’m painting still!
Some of my paintings were painted long ago and signed with my former married name, ropkey...but the work is all mine.
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