A day in the life of a starving artist

There’s more to me than meets the eye.

I am an artist. I do fine art, illustrations, graphic novels, paintings. You name it. That doesn’t mean I don’t know what I can do, it means I can do it all. There are a lot of samples to my work – check the top.

Benjamin Belew - fine artist and piano player/composer

I also play the piano…classical. The real stuff. Beethoven, Bach, Brahms and Belew. Playing the piano is not all fun and games.  But it can be fun.

Nothing brings out the real me than being me…and I do that best when I hang out with my friend and my brushes.

I had a girl friend once who accused me of cheating on her. She told my dad that she was worried.

My dad told her I had a friend that I hang out with and ‘she’ has 88 fingers.

I love the piano. I love what I can do with it and what the music does to me.

I also love to have a blank canvas and a model. I can see things…I can also translate what I see onto a canvas. I can do that!

I wonder if the other B’s had this much fun. If not, they did not know what they were missing.

If interested, read what Ryan Armbrust of Sniper Photo had to say about while taking these pics.