Granted, artists Uchihara (oil paintings) and Bokunen (woodblock prints) were in their 70's, but hadn't both gotten started when they were young? A far cry from me, who started in my 60's. But several days ago, I found a person who began painting and drawing when he was 50's-60's!
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"It's never too late;" he said. "just get started." Using his past experience as schoolteacher, he now teaches art online, explaining concepts of perspective, structure, composition to other artists. "Decide what you want to do, then don't look for shortcuts;" he stresses; "then just get the FUNDAMENTALS."
I remember, as a Christian, thinking I could "move on" from the mundane "fundamentals", of wanting to think about discipleship, forgiveness, spirit-filling, you know, mature things like that. But I realized everything came back to the Cross. It's the Gospel.
Nope--I'm never too old for the fundamentals. And it's never too late to really get going with them either.
