Revive - A Quarterly Fly Fishing Journal Fall 2016 | Page 29

Do you do any non outdoor art ? If so what is your favorite genre or style ?

Since my childhood sitting on the pews at Ferrysburg Church, I would take the donation envelopes and draw portraits on them. My favorite was to draw especially weird people. I still draw them today, and my friends love looking through them, and telling the characters stories. I like drawing these portraits because it is purely for the joy of drawing, no pressure at all to produce something to develop into a painting. I think it’s important to hold on to those basic joys in art. To be honest, rarely does my fish art become monotonous either, so I don’t think I’m in any danger of burning out.