Decorative Painters
Today, decorative painting is so popular that there are shops and instructors in almost every community and thousands of “addicted” decorative painters. Who are they and why do they paint? They vary from highly talented teachers to down-to-earth homemakers but all share on characteristic in common. They smile a lot. Decorative painting has allowed them to rekindle that sense of creativity and unselfconscious spontaneity that everyone is born with, (just look at the delightful crayon creations of young children), but which most lose along the way. Because it is so lose and creative, decorative painting is just plain fun. Painters don’t agonize over creating a technically perfect piece but rather revel in the sheer delight of color, form, and compositions that break the rules with light coming from all directions, landscapes lacking perspective, people with comical features, and whatever pleases them. There are no failures. Painters do learn various styles and basic brush control techniques but in the process, their individual, unique styles emerge. The painted pieces elicit smiles because they reflect a delight in life, nature, families and spiritual/religious feelings.
Decorative Painters have no clothes without paint stains, because they steal time at all hours of day and night to paint and forget to put on aprons. In between painting, many fly long distances, leaving jobs and families, to attend national conventions where they take classes from “big brushes”(well-known decorative artists) and spend their last dollars on the latest project books that they simply cannot live without. Many could write a book on cleaning and cooking shortcuts. Some have been known to take shortcuts to an extreme such as wearing their clothes inside out while painting and then reversing them back before going outside….but sometimes forgetting to do so (Decorative Painter; issue No. 2, 1999, page 15).
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