“Cebolla Creek, San Juan Mountains”
During one period of my life, I was beginning to make
about as much money from selling my paintings as from my "daytime
job" as an architect. I was thinking about trying to paint fulltime.
In the summer of 1973, however, I had to make a decision. A large
architectural and engineering firm offered me the opportunity to open
and manage an office for their firm in Houston. If successful, I would
become an owner-partner in the firm. I knew that if I accepted their
offer, the income for me and my family would quickly and dramatically
increase several times over but…there would not be any spare
time to paint. The safest and best thing for my family was to take
the offer, so I accepted it. Long story short, my abilities to paint
faded away over time.
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Thirty-three years later, in 2006, the time came to start
the process toward my retirement. While cleaning out my architectural office
to move my stuff home in August of that year, I came across and looked at
my old sketch books with great nostalgia. I got the urge to see if I could
paint again. I decided to first learn to draw again before painting. So,
for the last two years I have been doing pen and ink drawings.
Early last month, in July, the time came to paint again.
This is one of my first ones.
The purpose of this email subscription is to email out, in
more or less chronological order, the images of the paintings that I am
doing so that you can follow along my hopeful comeback to watercolor painting.
Cheers,
Acree
(October P. S.: Hurricane Ike had other plans for us in September.)
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