Welcome! I’m certainly glad you could join me today!

Hi! I’m Craig!  I’d like to welcome you to my blog.  I’m happy to share with you my art journey.  My journey began at the turn of the new year of 2017.  That’s when I received the Bob Ross Master Paint Set for Christmas and attempted my first oil painting.  Prior to that, I had not ever painted with oil paints and only had a couple of art classes in grade school.  (See here for the full story.  

It turned out that I wasn’t half bad at it.  That initial success kept me going and I painted every day until I ran out of canvases.  I think I completed around 10 paintings in two weeks. I showed them around on FB and received a lot of positive feedback.  Someone suggested that I start a FB page for my artwork so I did.  I soon found out that not everyone has a FB and a few people suggested a website.  That was over a year ago and here I am now finally taking that advice.  

To date, I’ve probably done over 50 paintings.  Some I’ve even sold!  If you’re interested in purchasing one, check out my Etsy shop.  So this blog will initially be playing catch up. Each blog post will be about a picture I painted, in the order I painted it and then I’ll add a photo of it to my gallery.  Follow the journey of an artist with virtually zero art training other than YouTube.  If I can do it, anyone can do it!  Perhaps I can inspire you to pick up a paintbrush yourself!