Art and Erin

Howard Finster is my favorite artist.  No one else is even close.  Well, maybe Van Gogh...but he wasn't my kind of artist.  I love Howard!

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Howard is from the primitive/ naive style.  He was a self-taught, preacher/artist.

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I get wild hairs and I want to throw caution to the wind and buy one of his angels on e-bay....".Dear Bill, Please forgive me.  I just did this.  Ooops." (I won't do this, I won't do this.)

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What I love about his art is that he wanted to convey a message through his art.....and he often added words to his art so that the consumer didn't have to think about why he created it.

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Howard believed in taking the "left overs" and making something beautiful.  From souls to statues, this man had it going on.

I want to see the possibilities in everyday life to make the world a little prettier, a little kinder, a little more loving, and a lot more fun.

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Proverbs 17:17