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Hello from New Mexico
margo:
Hi Aatos,
I love New Mexico. I live in Albuquerque and also born here. It is good to hear from you. BT is wonderful and so is everyone here.
God Bless and welcome.
Margo
Joel:
Hi Aatos,
I am interested to know what kind of art you like?
I do some oil, and acrylic on canvas, some oil pastels, and water colors, but what I really enjoy the most, and is very relaxing to me, is the basic drawing with pencils and paper.
As a kid growing up, in a family of eight brothers and sisters raised by my mother, we were very poor. So I made do with the materials we could afford, I probably had ADHD, but never heard of such a thing back in the fifties and sixties when I was in school.
I was very shy and backwards, and could have had the social anxieties you mentioned also, but God has done much for me, of which I am very thankful.
I wish you the best in the Lord.
Joel
Aatos:
Hi Joel,
Material wise I'm doing digital, because of the tablet I have, but traditionally my mood changes. Right now I'm in the pen, and ink phase. I'm decent with pencils, pens, charcoals, acrylics, pastels, and watercolors. In fact the one medium I have never liked much is oil painting. For me it takes too long. Now subject wise I tend to draw people, but I'm currently working on a graphic novel. (and by that I mean, I have most of the story written, now I'm drawing out some of the characters, trying to find a style that is both my own, but quick to do.)
Sounds like we have a lot in common. I think art became one of my go-tos during times of stress; that and my family was also poor, and drawing was relatively cheap.
Hi Margo,
Thank you for the welcome! I like it here too, but I hope someday to get out of this area.
Deborah-Leigh:
Hi Aatos
You and I have some experience in common. I too have been mistaken to be a man which has been very amusing at times. I am so glad I am a woman. I think women get away with much more than our men folks do and we need them to help and consider us! We are the weaker vessel!
Also regarding where you are in your circumstances re : seeing a psychologist and a psychiatrist. I suffered for clinically diagnosed depression for ten years. Well I believe my condition was only detected much later and for ten years I received the wonderful weekly sessions of therapy. It was a really important experience though it was fraught with pain, challenge and fears. There was a purpose. God authored that Purpose and I am so very relieved to no longer be in any therapy or medication anymore.
I identified that my strict Catholic upbringing, set the seed of deep dark hopelessness into my heart and mind that later in my early 30s manifested in immobilizing dysfunctional depression that was so overwhelming that I could not physically move or desire to even breathe at times. I did not want to self destruct but was totally overcome by the fear that I would. God showed me some very deep pain troughs that our human minds and flesh can experience. I never want to ever go there again.
The Forum is a sunny place to be with warmth, truth, sensitivity and blessing that continues to lead us in our respective paths that God authors for us to experience.
Welcome to the Forum and in the notes of that “heavy metal” I hope you can hear the blessed silence in between. :)
Arc
Joel:
Hi Aatos,
I agree with you about oils, I started out doing landscapes, and then tried people also.
I really like drawing people, that's where I get the most enjoyment.
My daughter has talked about writing a children's book, and illustrating it as well, but she is busy working to get her masters now.
Great talking to you, and hope you enjoy it here as much as I do.
We do seem to have some things in common.
Joel
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