User:Darrin Ingram

I am an artist full time and my facebook page is Art and photos by Ingram. I work with oil and acrylic paints creating beautiful landscape and abstracts for the world to see.

Each painting is done by hand and not from a stencil or computer generated. My inspirations come from Bob Ross, Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and many others. My paints and mediums are Winsor & Newton and Grumbacher￼￼￼.

When I went to Milford, Illinois high school I took every class on the arts. Anywhere from drafting all the way up to fine arts. I had good grades in those but barely passed the other courses. I always wanted to be an artist.

After graduation I went into factory work instead of getting a higher learning. For over 20 years I picked away at art on my days off. In 2015 I started doing full time art due to wear and tear on my body along with arthritis issues.

I was born in Louisiana and we moved around a lot for much of my childhood. When my step dad came into my life we moved many times from small towns to big cities. Lived in Milford, Illinois up north all the way down to Houston￼￼￼ in Texas and many places in between. Growing up this way exposed me to many beautiful things out there.

My best years was when we lived on a small farm for 8 years. We had a small forest and a creek that ran through the land. This made it easier to study nature and all things related. My step dad was supportive with me wanting to do art.

I am currently working on a book in between paintings.