1 of 3

|

women's t-shirts abstract women's t-shirts fish women's t-shirts fish still life women's t-shirts christian women's t-shirts purple women's t-shirts blue women's t-shirts red women's t-shirts abstract realism women's t-shirts white women's t-shirts

mixed media abstract mixed media fish mixed media fish still life mixed media christian mixed media purple mixed media blue mixed media red mixed media abstract realism mixed media white mixed media

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

Add This Artwork to Your Favorites Collection

Comment

For most of us, our lives are composites of good times and bad times, successes and failures, hope and despair. For some, life is a mish mash of events that simply happen to us without much control from us, but we have more control than one thinks. The Tender is the offer of God’s grace available to us throughout our life. This painting is for the physical world, but its offer comes from the spiritual world.
The Tender is created with cold wax, acrylics, oils and various other materials.

I am a 78-year-old retired man. I began my artist quest when I was thirteen years old by sending in my artist’s test from a “Draw Me” magazine advertisement. Of course, I didn’t win and my parents paid for the course. I continued to pursue art off and on through the years. A marriage at nineteen to a girl I met in college interrupted my degree pursuit. At 46-years-old I had the opportunity to return to college where I received a degree in Art Education. Teaching in public school and I was a very poor match. With the art training and the production of a tremendous amount of work, I opened an art gallery while maintaining a full-time job in IT. This allowed me to spend my nights and weekends experimenting with various media and...