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I have always been interested in the visual expression of love and light through Art but my life path from my formative years through my mid thirties, took me away from my dreams and the desire to create. While in my early twenties, I abandoned the beliefs of my upbringing and was lost. I stopped seeing my Angel and I stopped talked to God.
I got married and thereafter buried myself in climbing the corporate ladder to please
everyone but myself. I continued living a life of material attainment and spiritual abandonment until my divorce and the subsequent tragic suicide of my former wife.
It was a very low point in my life. I began to have horrible nightmares as result of feeling that I should have been able to prevented the suicide of my former wife. My self-esteem had hit rock bottom and I gave to everyone except myself because I felt I wasn’t worthy of Love, Peace and Happiness.
Finally, in July 1999, my Angel punched her way through one of my nightmares and
told me it was time to wake up, stop blaming myself and start living again. At that moment I rediscovered God and my Angels.
Over the next 8 months, I followed a path of meditation and rebirth. By October, 1999
I picked up a paintbrush and started painting again but I found that I didn’t know what to paint. I asked for heavenly message to point me in the direction of the best use for artistic abilities. I felt that I was getting messages but they weren’t very clear to me. I started painting surreal environments with elements of light orbs. I didn’t understand why I was being pulled to paint orbs of light. So I continued to ask for guidance and clarification.
Finally, in February 2000 a new friend of mine (an angel in human form) invited me out to visit a local Phoenix store that specialized in Angels. I accepted the invitation but without any clue or anticipation of what was about to happen. As I entered the store, I immediately felt overcome with a sensation of love, peace and harmony and for the first time in over 20 years, I opened my heart and soul to fully see the angel that I had grown up with as a child. I remember being speechless but at that very moment, I received the message I have been waiting for. I would paint Angels as a form of healing art.
Now that I knew what I was to do, I had to choose a medium. That came to me immediately. If I was going to paint beings of light, why not paint with light. So I chose the computer as my medium. In March 2000 I bought a decent computer and several paint software programs and a “hyper pen” to draw with. I had no clue how to use any of these things and was immediately overcome with a sense of frustration. I started looking into taking classes in computer animation but couldn’t work it out with my demands of my daytime job as an insurance adjuster. I remember sitting in front of the computer in late March and I prayed for help and I heard a voice say, lets do it. So I picked up my “hyper pen” and suddenly found myself feeling very comfortable with this tool. I then started painting in Adobe Photoshop.
I had been looking at the features over the past couple of weeks and had been feeling very intimidated by them but on this particular evening, everything just seemed to come to me and I started navigating through the various features as if I had been working in this medium for months. By early April 2000 I had completed my first 2 paintings.
At that time, I returned to the angel store that first gave me my inspiration and I told the owners what had happened to me upon my first visit to their store. I also told them that I had just started painting angels with my computer I then blurted out “ would you be interested in seeing them when I am done?” I don’t know what gave me the nerve to say that because I had never previously shown any of my artwork publicly much less sought public opinion. But there I was ready to go for it.
In late May, I brought my first 4 paintings to the angel store. The owners took a look at my first 4 paintings and they asked if I would be interested in having them displayed in the store. I was speechless. This was more than I had hoped for or dreamed would happen. The angel store held an auction on my first 5 paintings late July 2000, it was very successful and brought a lot of attention to my work.
The year 2000 ended with me completing 12 paintings. I was feeling very good but still incomplete in terms of reaching out to heal and bring light to the world. In early 2001, the owners of the angel store asked me if I would do a painting depicting the ascension of a departed family member. I was honored by the request but scared at the same time. How would I paint someone else’s vision or dream. I felt like no matter what I ended up with, the painting might either be offensive or not clearly representative of what I was being asked to depict.
I froze as I first sat at my computer to do this painting and I sat for what I recall was about 6 hours without doing anything but getting frustrated. It was about 2:00am I was near exhaustion from frustration and fatigue. It was at this point that I finally let go and opened up. To my surprise I was giddy with laughter as I was hearing a voice telling me, “just have fun with it and enjoy the ride”. So I picked up my pen and started painting. I ended up with a painting of a man holding a bottle of Mexican beer in one hand and maracas in the other while standing on a cloud smiling and looking at a Guardian Angel. I looked at the painting and nearly fell out of my chair laughing. I had finally broken the ice and I heard the voice again. And this time it said, “ok, now lets do this the way it really looked when I met my angels”. It was then that I realized that the voice was in fact the man whom I was being asked to paint.
I was continually guided through this next painting that I actually started the next morning. After getting about 4 hours of sleep. I finished the 2nd painting that day and brought both paintings to the Angel Store for the owner to see. I showed her the 2nd painting first. She said with tear filled eyes that I had captured the very image that she had seen in her dreams of the ascension of her Father to Heaven. I then proceeded to show her the first painting. (the one with her Father holding the beer and maracas). To my surprise, this one drew more attention than the 2nd painting. The storeowner asked me how I knew that her Father loved Mexican beer. She then told me that he used to love going to Mexico and would always bring back maracas. She again asked me how I came to choose these things to place in the painting, as she had never said anything that would have given me a clue of their significance in her Father’s life. I simply replied, “I knew to put those things in the painting because he told me to.” Here is the 2nd painting, titled, “Ascending to Heaven”.
At that point, I realized that my mission was to take on a new direction. To serve and heal through providing personalized paintings as visual memorials, testimonials and affirmations of the love and light in all living beings as seen from our physical and heavenly planes. To date I have done over 62 Angel paintings and 22 of them are personalized paintings.
My commission work is the joy and true inspiration that now drives me everyday. Each painting can take anywhere from 5 hours to 20 hours but they are a labor of love and I continue to expand my family of friends on earth and in Heaven. This is now a life ministry for me and I welcome all who wish to have a personal painting done of their angel(s) and their human and animal loves ones that dwell in our physical world as well as those that have returned to the light.
Wherever my mission takes me, I will always owe a special debt of gratitude to Alice Wagner who would take me to my path. To Sandra Zerzanek for helping me hear God’s message and to Lou and Sandi Bronsard of Souly’s Angels, for opening their store and their hearts to give me my first opportunity to share my gifts with the world.
If you are interested in a personal painting, contact me through Angel Treasures at 1-888-741-9386.
I charge a flat fee of $55.00 that would include matting of an 8x10 size painting. Larger paintings and framing will be provided at additional cost. With the exception of painting a personal Angel, I prefer to work off of a favorite photograph of the loved one that is to be depicted in the painting.
Peace and Love,
Kevin
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