Wednesday, November 7, 2012  Why didn´t you tell me?  Advice I
wish someone had told me 20 years ago. -By Jesper Ejsing  One of
my first acrylic paintings. For a fairy Tale by H. C. Andersen.
It is always hard.  When I was 21 and in the beginning of my
career as an artist, I was still studying literature. On the
side I was hanging around at a Studio ( the one I still reside
in ) doing freelance work and dreaming about being a full time
illustrator. I always imagined how sweet that life would be. I
could spend all day carefully searching the royal library for
references. I would study nature and paint puddles in the street
or make sketches of statues and old buildings around Copenhagen.
Everything would be satisfying and rewarding artistically and I
could paint whatever I wanted, because my skills were just a
year or two away of being polished to perfection. A couple of
years later I was still happily learning something within each
new painting. I was trying different styles and medium every
week and I felt l