Rob people ask me how I can to do what I do. I tell them I work with and for my love of art. So I am doing what I love as a hobby and what was ment for me to do. Starting out as an artist, moving on to painting houses restoring homes, then Faux and mural painting then painting furniture and from there refinishing and restoring. The Conservation work was all way there, reading and picking up bits and pieces over the years a project here and a project there in conjunction with adult classes at the Smithsonian and other pro shop classes around the county I studied and grew in my trade. O and a lot of prayer for guidance. So a natural progression took place. I did not set out to be an artist I wanted to work with dogs, training them. But doors were shut and other doors were open, doors which seemed very easy to walk through and on the other side I found I had the talent to do what laid inside. So there is nothing scary about this for me just challenges to understand and learn new technical ways of approaching each project.
Thanks for taking an internist and following what I do.
Not to preach but this is a great passage to keep in mind: 1Chroniacls 4:[9] And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
[10] And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
I am thankful every day for what I can do and I Know I can learn more. This is the life of a craftsman, all ways growing and developing new talents, learning from their mistakes and concurring their inabilities.