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It wasn\u2019t until I was in my mid 50\u2019s that I started painting and only because I started working at Colart in the Kidderminster DC.\u00a0 I\u2019d dropped art at school and would never have picked up a brush again if it hadn\u2019t been for joining Colart.<\/p>\n
Thankfully I did and since 2015 I\u2019ve been painting in every spare moment.\u00a0 There\u2019s such a wealth of freely available advice now and I soaked it up by watching YouTube tutorials and to brush up on specific techniques such as painting animal fur, I paid for a couple of lessons and purchased a few DVD\u2019s, books and online courses.\u00a0 If I wasn\u2019t at my easel painting, I was watching or reading about art.<\/p>\n
Luckily, I had good support from family and friends and I managed to start selling through local craft fairs. I also home printed greeting cards to sell in a local caf\u00e9 and at fairs. I tried limited edition printed canvases but couldn\u2019t compete with stores who sell an excellent range very reasonably, so I stopped doing these.<\/p>\n
The Colart staff discount is a great opportunity to purchase top brand products and I\u2019ve tried as many of our products as possible, so I have an understanding, though I especially love our fast-drying Griffin alkyd oils.<\/p>\n
I would urge anyone who is remotely curious to have a go, painting is incredibly relaxing and for me it \u00a0provides relief from tinnitus (Tinnitus<\/em> is when you experience ringing or other noises in one or both of your ears<\/em>). I\u2019ve had it for several years and while the tinnitus never stops, painting takes my thoughts elsewhere and distracts me and the ringing recedes into the background.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thank you for reading my story which I hope inspires you to share yours on Colart\u2019s Got Talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It wasn\u2019t until I was in my mid 50\u2019s that I started painting and only because I started working at Colart in the Kidderminster DC.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2077,"featured_media":27749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","cgt_type":[],"class_list":["post-27745","cgt","type-cgt","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","post","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-large"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/intranet-old.colart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cgt\/27745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/intranet-old.colart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cgt"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/intranet-old.colart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cgt"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intranet-old.colart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intranet-old.colart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27745"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/intranet-old.colart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cgt\/27745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27825,"href":"https:\/\/intranet-old.colart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cgt\/27745\/revisions\/27825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intranet-old.colart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/intranet-old.colart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cgt_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/intranet-old.colart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cgt_type?post=27745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/intranet-old.colart.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/janinstagram-212x460.png\")
<\/a>I\u2019m not very social media savvy so don\u2019t have a website, I am on Instagram (@jiny_lennon<\/a>) and enjoy engaging with other artists.\u00a0 As I work full time, art is only a hobby but one I hope to take more seriously in retirement.\u00a0 Most of my commissions are mainly pet portraits but as a keen animal lover I do enjoy painting animals. I also love painting people, practicing on my family but I\u2019ve completed a few commissions too and my favourite genre is still life.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/intranet-old.colart.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Mix-3-307x460.jpg\")
\nArt as therapy<\/strong><\/p>\n