My Way to Art
The way to art as a profession is rarely direct, unless your family has lived on it already. My parents haven't...
Everything seems to have a special reason, doesn't it?
After my A-levels (also in arts - should have made me think) I went into a job that I just knew from going on holiday - at the railway. Checking wagons, leading trains into the right direction or selling tickets, - nothing that I had dreamt of.
It didn't take long that I got bored although I still like being in stations and going by trains, probably because there is so much to see: people, skies, landscapes, cities, animals - everything that is worth a painting or more than one...
The next step had almost nothing to do with art except I learned how to deal with taxes and book keeping. Granted, that is something very handy and useful for artists.
However, art didn't still find the way into my mind at that time. I just painted my first portraits with paints for pupils on bad paper, but that didn't make me think.
So, I made my way to university to be teacher for German and English. The studies took much time and paper (but not for drawing or painting), but got me some teaching experience abroad in London. An artist without a look for international contacts?- No way, at least if your mother tongue is so exotic as German.
Teaching is always useful, especially if you are an artist.
In the end I found out that I'd never become a usual teacher.
I can't really say what made me take over my husband's easel and acrylic colours the day after I had decided to leave school, but there I have been - painting.
Everything seems to have a special reason, doesn't it?
After my A-levels (also in arts - should have made me think) I went into a job that I just knew from going on holiday - at the railway. Checking wagons, leading trains into the right direction or selling tickets, - nothing that I had dreamt of.
It didn't take long that I got bored although I still like being in stations and going by trains, probably because there is so much to see: people, skies, landscapes, cities, animals - everything that is worth a painting or more than one...
The next step had almost nothing to do with art except I learned how to deal with taxes and book keeping. Granted, that is something very handy and useful for artists.
However, art didn't still find the way into my mind at that time. I just painted my first portraits with paints for pupils on bad paper, but that didn't make me think.
So, I made my way to university to be teacher for German and English. The studies took much time and paper (but not for drawing or painting), but got me some teaching experience abroad in London. An artist without a look for international contacts?- No way, at least if your mother tongue is so exotic as German.
Teaching is always useful, especially if you are an artist.
In the end I found out that I'd never become a usual teacher.
I can't really say what made me take over my husband's easel and acrylic colours the day after I had decided to leave school, but there I have been - painting.
