I chose George Allen Durkee as my first mentor artist. As I have been reflecting on my memories, I notice that the sun has been one of the most important aspects. I decided to look up artists that capture the way light reflects off surfaces and creates the landscapes that we see.

Durkee traveled much of his life and worked very, very hard to become the painter he is today. He mostly works in landscape oil paintings. He creates his paintings out in the streets of San Francisco as a way of marketing his artwork.

His artwork is very inspiring to me because I have been working towards capturing light the same way he does. It actually is pretty interesting because he has educational videos that teach people how to capture light in paintings. I know that Andrea told me that she is not sure about creating abstract paintings, but perhaps I could use my digital paintings as sketches for large-scale paintings. I know that I woul like to use my studio time over the summer to paint.