My First Blog

     Hi, I am Felicia, and this is my first blog post. I have danced around with the idea of having a blog before when I was trying out show off my baking skills, then again with my craft skills, and then most recently with my makeup skills. Get they idea I don't stick with things for long at a time. Yeah well I have the attention span of a goldfish. 
     So, now I have moved onto painting, and I have actually followed through on starting a blog. Let's just hope I stay with it. I'm hoping since I have followed through with starting a blog that it means I will stick with painting. Not to say I haven't stuck with baking, crafts, and makeup, I just don't record everything I do. I just do it for fun, and keep my secrets to myself. Yes I am selfish.
      Just like with everything I else I have done I kind of just stumbled into it. I always assumed that just because I couldn't draw with a damn that I couldn't ever be an artist. There is a lot of famous painters that never did realistic paintings; they did mainly abstract or impressionistic. I have always liked art and expressing myself through art. I have Bachelors in Theatre Arts, so of course I'm crazy. I didn't realize that I was actually pretty decent at painting until I was planning a staycation for parents for mother's/father's day and their birthday's. I did a week long thing where they were in a different country each day, and I planned the menus and cooked every meal for them and fun activities for them to do. During all of that I also came up decorations. For one of the days we were in Spain, and during my research of Spain I learned that paintings and art is a big part of their culture. I decided that I would try my hand at recreating some Spanish paintings just for decoration purpose. My parents enjoyed my recreations, and I thought they were pretty darn good myself. Since you don't know me, that is saying something because I am my biggest critic. After my recreations got such a good response I started painting some presents for people. I painted a portrait of my Grandfather's dog for father's day; which he said he loved, and he never actually tells anybody he likes anything they give him.

Then I painted my Great Grandmother a picture of Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane. Then I painted my cousin am abstract painting of love for her wedding, and when she said the loved that picture the best of all her gifts, I knew I had found something. 

      And its not all about people ohing and awing over the paintings because not that many people have seen my work, but they release I get when I paint. It probably sounds cheesy to say this, but my paintings change with my mood, and even how I interpret my finished paintings change from day to day. I hope to bring that joy of interpretation and release to people by having my painting out there for people to see. I know my style of painting isn't going to be for everybody, but that's fine that is part of the joy of art. Just like movies and music everybody has their favorites and not everybody is going to agree. Could you imagine how boring the world would be if everybody liked the same things.
      You will probably find out later that I also express myself through tattoos as well. It is a way for my to wear artwork, and spread that joy with the world as well. So let's hope I can keep up with this blogging that and share my artwork with the world.

All of my paintings can be seen and bought at my etsy store at: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GetTheRagtimeBlues?ref=hdr_shop_menu

Without any further ado here is my first painting creation that I didn't make for somebody else. I call it Hidden Love. This was the first time I had painted on a canvas before, so that was fun. A little background about be; I am a big supporter for same-sex marriage, and not a lot of my family is. When I say not a lot I mean mainly my mother and I support same-sex marriage. So I painted this for all the people that are part of conservative families, like mine is, that are afraid to come out. I myself am bisexual which only a few of my close friends know, and now the whole world, so the painting is very personal.

The beauty about abstract art is that it can mean something different to each person that sees it. I said earlier why I painted it, but that might not be what you see. For example after I finished it I asked my Dad what he thought about it, and keep in mind he doesn't know what I was thinking when I painted it, and he thought it was people smelling flowers. I could see where he got that, and I liked the fact that he saw something in it. He isn't much of an art person much less being asked to interpret it. I would love to hear from you as to what you think of it and see in it, and if the painting really speaks to you, you can own it. Just visit my the paintings etsy page at: https://www.etsy.com/listing/239578410/abstract-oil-painting-hidden-love?ref=shop_home_active_6


I hope everybody has enjoyed my first blog post. I don't know why I have waited so long to start a blog because this is extremely fun. I love talking about myself and this is the perfect way to do so. (You'll have to forgive my bad jokes, sarcasm, and puns) Have a great day!
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