boballoo3

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Member	Jan 28, 2014 (12 years)	3 years	9	3

Forum role: Member
Member since: Jan 28, 2014 (12 years)
Last activity: 3 years
Topics created: 9
Replies created: 3

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Hi, my name is Bob. I took early retirement from the steel industry four years ago and one of the things I promised myself was to learn to paint. I have always loved art and took up drawing at the age of fifty for the first time since leaving school. Hmmm did they have schools that long ago? Seemingly they did because I have some vague recollections of it, in particular of getting the cane for doodling in maths. I enjoyed drawing but always felt it lacked something, so I was determined to try my hand at painting. I enrolled on a watercolour class, but quickly decided that perhaps watercolour and I did not really gel. (In other words I couldn't do it.) Then I tried acrylic and found that I enjoyed using them and so here I am, a retired steel worker, splodging acrylic paint onto boards and paper and quite enjoying doing so. I realise that I have a great deal to learn and that I am a mere beginner in the art of painting, but enjoying doing something is half the battle. I love real art and will happily while away my free time in galleries wherever I come across them. I have been lucky enough to visit the Met in New York, the Louvre in Paris and of course Tate Britain. I also love sculpture and have a great fondness for the V&A, where I can wander for days. Well rather than bore anyone daft enough to read this into tears, I will leave it at that. It seems that nowadays, I have drifted away from art towards poetry and find it strangely more rewarding and more spiritual in many ways. I should stress that I mean spiritual as different from religious. Maybe that will change and I will drift back into more artistic endeavours. With my thanks for visiting and my very best wishes. I can be contacted at boballoo1@aol.com.

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