A Beginning of Sorts…
I got some nice photos done for this. Now I actually have decent pictures of myself where paint splatters aren't my main accessory, I’m actually wearing a little mascara, and my hair isn't piled on top of my head in a messy bun. Doing big things over here guys.
So, if you’re new here, which you probably are since this is a new blog and my first entry in it: HEY!
I'm Chanell Pinkney, a fine art painter and graphite artist based in Northeast Florida. I am a wife. I am a mother. And I am an artist---though it has taken me time to actually identify myself as such.
Art has been a part of who I am my entire life. My earliest memories are of me tucked away somewhere with crayons and pencils, scribbling my masterpieces on whatever paper I could find to be proudly held up by magnets and displayed on the refrigerator door. I was always so happy to draw and paint and...create!
While that passion and skill has never left me, somewhere along the way I lost it as a means of identifying myself with. Why do we do that??? Take something that is such a part of who we are as an individual and fail to use it as an identifying mark? Maybe it creates vulnerability...opens us up to criticism and critique...I don't know, maybe you do. I'm just thankful for the encouragement of my friends and family and especially my husband for pushing me to SHARE my art and stop keeping it all to myself.
So this platform has become a great way for me to share, grow, and adapt as an artist. I truly feel privileged to get to do something I've always loved, full time, surrounded by supportive people and a growing community of like minded creatives. There's probably lots more I can say but this post got longer than I meant for it to get. If you've read this far, you rock! I'll share more about me, my life, and my art in future entries, so stick around. Better yet, subscribe below to my newsletter and I’ll alert you when I post again. Plus it just makes us artist feel so good when we get that little alert that someone has subscribed to our newsletter. So do the right thing. Be a good human and make an artist happy.
Photos by Ariel Rose Photography
