I Started Painting At 40. One Year In, I Think I Finally Found My Thing

By threshold_guardian2 • September 24, 2026

I started drawing last year at 39 and found my way to oil painting around the time I turned 40.

I had no idea it would become such an important part of my life.

These are a couple of the paintings I’ve made along the way, and the little room where most of it happens.

I spent a long time thinking you were supposed to figure out the important parts of yourself when you were young.

Apparently that’s not always how it works.

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