What Art Gives Me

I never dreamed of being an artist because I never dreamed it was someone you could be.  Art was just what I did when I had free time to do anything.  What I have come to know is that making Art is my most sincere realization of His image, of me being “in His image.”  It is a very frightening thing being in his image because you can never see how you will be successful in being someone only for the pure love of being him.  It is like being successful at playing; no one thinks while playing, “I am going to be a player!”  To me, being an artist is as real a fairy tale as Robin Hood except there is a Lee Benson