Introduction

So, I finally have a site now, and I'm excited to get started.

A little about myself for this first real post:  I'm a painter living in Lafayette, LA with a job in the oil field (Gulf of Mexico). I'm originally from up north, and I traveled around a bit in between.

I have a wide variety of interests, but art, drawing, and painting have always been important to me. I'm mostly self-taught, but I had a few classes in college that I took for fun. It's only been in the past year that I really started taking my painting as seriously as I do now. 

That might under-emphasize the amount of art that I grew up with however, since my family was always creating art when I was growing up.

I like portraiture, but I don't limit it to faces or even people. I think that inanimate objects can make fascinating portrait subjects, and I hope to talk more about that in this blog.