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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. 🙏 Stephanie SpayBoldBrush Recommends: Stephanie Spay
A daily newsletter featuring today’s finest visual artists. Today's Newsletter is Brought to You by FASO.FASO Loves William Schneider’s oil paintings! See More of William Schneider’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: Stephanie SpayGet Notified When Stephanie Posts Art BiographyMy name is Stephanie Spay. My passion for painting may have started way back when I was four years old with a Crayola and a drawing of Charlie Brown and Snoopy. I still can feel the drag of the wax on the paper as I watched Charlie take shape before me. It was joy. It was surely magic, and it came out of me! I discovered I could make pictures of things that made me feel happy. I drew a lot of things that made me feel happy back then. I drew my family, my basset hound, my parrot, care bears, and unicorns, rainbows, and bubble letters. I discovered one day that my pictures made other people feel happy, too. My parents, my grandmothers, and my sisters received many drawings that I drew for them, because I wanted to make them to feel as happy as I did when I made them. As I grew, and I discovered that my heart could break, that I could feel shame and humiliation, unloved, and unsafe, instead of putting my pencil down and weeping, I drew. I drew darkness and doubt, sadness and tears. I explored the feelings that I couldn't put my voice to, through the end of my pencil. My drawings were for healing not happiness, for me and not for them. "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for." - Georgia O'Keeffe I carried my love for creating with me to college where I focused my studio work on painting, and collected a whole lot of those magic moments like the one with Charlie, except this time, it was with oil paint and canvas. One minute I was peaked to launch my brush across the studio in frustration and defeat, and the next I was exhilarated as I witnessed the marks I was making harmonizing with former brush strokes I had laid down on the canvas. I could've spent my entire time at John Herron School of Art and Indiana University Bloomington in the painting studio, but my trajectory had already been set towards a degree in Art Education and I stayed the course. I never really put that degree to its full use. I married my high school sweetheart, and continued painting, mostly murals and commissions, through my twenties. My thirties saw the paints boxed and stored as I stayed home to raise and homeschool my two beautiful creative boys. There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." - Vincent van Gogh As my children grew more independent, my brushes and paints saw more daylight. My easel found its own room, and my inventory of work began to expand. I studied under other painting professionals through workshops, and I continue to do so. I love to create and I love to do it with paint. I paint what moves me, and I paint themes that tell a story. The story is my own, but you, too, might find your own story in my work. I hope you do! In my earliest memories, it seemed to most natural thing to do. Like eating, sleeping, and loving, telling stories with my crayons and now with my paint connects me to others and deepens the mystery of our lives here together on earth. The desire to create is a gift from our Creator we all are born with in one form or another. Thank you for visiting my website to see how God has moved me to create. "Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity." - Maya Angelou Learn More About Stephanie Spay New Artwork by FASO Members Your art could be here tomorrow, for free.
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