LARRY LEREW FINE ART REPRODUCTION GIFTS

I really got excited with grade school art as a kid by making simple projects with water paints, white school paste, wax crayons, construction paper and safety scissors. It was fun and easy for me to express myself with no worries. Art class, field trips and recess on the playground were my favorite subjects in school. As the years moved on, people asked me to make art for them but I kept reforming my style to fit in, like coloring inside the lines and redoing things because I was afraid of making mistakes. People I knew loved complexity and detail, the more the merrier. This path is normal for a lot of young artists but it wasn’t good for me, I could feel the pressure all the time. I completed art school as a commercial artist and saved years of time learning art basics, but I wasn’t happy with commercial art because I wasn’t connected to the art. Each project would hit the mark for the client but I was left feeling empty. I decided to go back to having fun making art and build a body of work with fine art paintings and drawings that really inspired me. This took years of experimentation and development but was well worth the effort to get back on the right track. Today my new normal is enjoyable again and to think I found my way back to my happy place of creating with water paints, white school paste, wax crayons, construction paper and safety scissors. Larry