George Minor
Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio and living in the southwestern area of Pennsylvania, my love for art had started early when I would look through all of the books my parents had in the book cases; I still have several of them books I so dearly cherish, Norman Rockwell, a Nature book and the picture Bible. Remembering back I would say my parents opened my life to art, setting at the kitchen table with my dad he had shown me how to draw a jet airplane and my mom with her very crafty ways of creating school projects.
My schooling was the best in the region as far as junior and senior high schools go, they was ranked in the top ten. Every facet of learning I cherished, there had been many of my peers I looked up to and gained more knowledge than I can ever repay with gratitude. It was the year of 1977 I met the greatest influence in my life, a fellow classmate. He had introduced me to portraiture and I have never looked back.
I am a graduate of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh with an associate degree in visual communication in 1992; I then went to work for a plastic company in Toledo, Ohio as a Lead Designer for their point of purchase displays. Moving south to Corbin, Kentucky in 2000 I started to find my growth in commissioned portraiture. Changing from oil painting to the color pencil I found a love I would call home in the southeastern part of Kentucky.
Colored Pencil Portraits consist of a large part of the art work I create each year. I am able to capture more than a resemblance of a certain person, beyond that I tell a story of who they are with a glow to their smile and a deeper personality of that exceptional person.
I am in a transition period...Tomorrow is the price for yesterday!!! Do I live to create? Or does my Art keep me alive? Looking back through my art I am able to see for the first time that I have not been anywhere I was not suppose to be, each of my paintings directed me to this exact time. So I say this, if I wanted to change what I thought the past should have been!!! I must start Today with the decisions of Today!!!
My schooling was the best in the region as far as junior and senior high schools go, they was ranked in the top ten. Every facet of learning I cherished, there had been many of my peers I looked up to and gained more knowledge than I can ever repay with gratitude. It was the year of 1977 I met the greatest influence in my life, a fellow classmate. He had introduced me to portraiture and I have never looked back.
I am a graduate of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh with an associate degree in visual communication in 1992; I then went to work for a plastic company in Toledo, Ohio as a Lead Designer for their point of purchase displays. Moving south to Corbin, Kentucky in 2000 I started to find my growth in commissioned portraiture. Changing from oil painting to the color pencil I found a love I would call home in the southeastern part of Kentucky.
Colored Pencil Portraits consist of a large part of the art work I create each year. I am able to capture more than a resemblance of a certain person, beyond that I tell a story of who they are with a glow to their smile and a deeper personality of that exceptional person.
I am in a transition period...Tomorrow is the price for yesterday!!! Do I live to create? Or does my Art keep me alive? Looking back through my art I am able to see for the first time that I have not been anywhere I was not suppose to be, each of my paintings directed me to this exact time. So I say this, if I wanted to change what I thought the past should have been!!! I must start Today with the decisions of Today!!!
