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If you like our writing, we’d be much obliged if you would click the ❤️ or the 🔁 icon on this post so more collectors, art lovers, and artists can discover us on Substack. 🙏 Kent BrewerBoldBrush Recommends: Kent Brewer
A daily newsletter featuring today’s finest visual artists. Today's Newsletter is Brought to You by FASO.FASO Loves Ingrid E. Albrecht’s watercolor paintings! See More of Ingrid E. Albrecht’s art by clicking here. Wouldn’t You Love to work with a website hosting company that actually promotes their artists?As you can see, at FASO, we actually do, and, Click the button below to start working Get Started with FASO for Free BoldBrush Recommends: Kent BrewerGet Notified When Kent Posts New Art BiographyThe late, great western writer Elmer Kelton's "The Time it Never Rained" tells the story of rancher Charlie Flagg's battle with a severe 1950s drought in fictional Rio Seco, Texas. Nearly 30 years ago I faced the beginning of my own personal battle with a severe drought. With apologies to Mr. Kelton, for me it was the time I never painted. That chapter in my life arrived in the form of unbearable grief after the loss of my youngest daughter Shelli in 1990. Obviously, the last thing I cared about during those first few months was painting, but even years later, I cared nothing about art. Much less watching sports, talking politics or even laughing. It all seemed so unimportant. My faith in God gave me assurance that I would one day see her again, but I missed her terribly. Some seven years later, time had slowly worked to heal my heart in that way that it does. And though you never truly get over losing a child, my sorrow was showing signs of breaking. In perhaps the most fitting way possible I began to come out of my drought by painting a watercolor of Shelli flying a kite. It was from a photo while vacationing on Hilton Head Island just a few months before she died. It's a bitter-sweet image and priceless to me in so many ways. Running on the wide beaches of South Carolina, full of life and joy. These days, motivation to paint, now exclusively with oils, is not difficult for me. And I'm grateful for that. As life's joys and sorrows have ultimately molded me into who I am, one could surmise that applying paint to canvas reflects events in our lives, both good and bad, with each brush stroke. And perhaps this has something to do with how some paintings move us in ways we can't explain. ~ Kent Brewer Creating Art is about Creating Magic. New Artwork by FASO Members Your art could be here tomorrow, for free.
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