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StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Horseart wrote:

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You should illustrate children’s books. Really nice work.

Stan

Horseart Loc: Alabama

Vantheman wrote:

WOW!! You are one more talented lady. Love your work.

Thank you Van! Much appreciated.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

Horseart wrote:

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You are very talented! I'm sure your daughter-in-law is overwhelmed!

pbearperry Loc: Massachusetts

Wonderful images.

Horseart Loc: Alabama

Bridges wrote:

You are very talented! I'm sure your daughter-in-law is overwhelmed!

Thank you for the kind comment She says she loves it. I think she would tell me if she didn't LOL!

Horseart Loc: Alabama

pbearperry wrote:

Wonderful images.

Thank you for looking and for the kind comment.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Great job, Jo, you are very talented.

Horseart Loc: Alabama

Earnest Botello wrote:

Great job, Jo, you are very talented.

Thank you so much Earnest. I wish I could paint all day, full time, like I used to.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Horseart wrote:

Thank you so much Earnest. I wish I could paint all day, full time, like I used to.

Me too, I loved painting portraits and only portraits, mostly for family and friends, I never wanted to make a career out of it, I did it at my own pace. Anyhow age caught up with me and my hands can
no longer hold a paint brush steady anymore, so I stopped about 15 years ago, now at 81 I miss it. Here is one I did in 1980.

StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Earnest Botello wrote:

Me too, I loved painting portraits and only portraits, mostly for family and friends, I never wanted to make a career out of it, I did it at my own pace. Anyhow age caught up with me and my hands can
no longer hold a paint brush steady anymore, so I stopped about 15 years ago, now at 81 I miss it. Here is one I did in 1980.

Being able to capture the likeness of a person is truly a gift. I could draw things but I could never draw someone’s likeness true to form.

Stan

Horseart Loc: Alabama

Earnest Botello wrote:

Me too, I loved painting portraits and only portraits, mostly for family and friends, I never wanted to make a career out of it, I did it at my own pace. Anyhow age caught up with me and my hands can
no longer hold a paint brush steady anymore, so I stopped about 15 years ago, now at 81 I miss it. Here is one I did in 1980.

That's GREAT Earnerst. I am thankful that I can still paint at 86 but I hate that I am so much slower than I used to be.
It's strange how different artists like to paint different things (always what they are best at). I was never good at portraits. I always loved painting animals, flowers, birds, landscaped and still like. I still like painting horses more than anything else, but that's because I fell in love with horses at 3 years old, lived in the city, so I couldn't have a pony. I guess I just decided that if I couldn't have one, I'd just draw and paint some...1st wall mural at 4 years old...ponies and puppies...got spanked!!!!

Horseart Loc: Alabama

StanMac wrote:

Being able to capture the likeness of a person is truly a gift. I could draw things but I could never draw someone’s likeness true to form.

Stan

Earnest is talented. Like you, I never did well with painting people. Same as photographers, we all like different subjects.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

StanMac wrote:

Being able to capture the likeness of a person is truly a gift. I could draw things but I could never draw someone’s likeness true to form.

Stan

Thank you, Stan.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Horseart wrote:

Earnest is talented. Like you, I never did well with painting people. Same as photographers, we all like different subjects.

Thank you, Jo. The first portrait I did was a pencil drawing of actor John Derrick when I was about 8 years old.

Horseart Loc: Alabama

Earnest Botello wrote:

Thank you, Jo. The first portrait I did was a pencil drawing of actor John Derrick when I was about 8 years old.

I still have 2 paintings I did when I was 8. My mother thought painting was a waste of paper but she save those two and framed them. They hung in her dining room until she passed away.