The pastor at First Baptist Church in Dexter has played with art forms since childhood. "I think since I could pick up a pencil," he said. Like a lot of kids, he added, he drew cartoons, monsters and all the things boys were interested in.<br>
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But the interest grew stronger with his parents' encouragement, especially that of him mom who "bragged a lot" and provided the art supplies he needed.<br>
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His skill with the pencil grew. "I progressed to animal pictures in graphite," he said. But he attributes his turn to serious art in oils to his mentor, Dave Bennett. "Dave is a <a href="http://www.vanoilpaintings.com/shop-by-artist-c-108.html">great painter</a> and he took me under his wing," Easterwood said.<br>
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In 2000, Bennett, a "plein air" or outdoor painter, asked Easterwood if he had ever tried the form. Then Bennett took the budding artist out to paint a scene. "I did the worst painting in the history of the world," Easterwood quipped.<br>
But Bennett, a former Missouri Baptist Convention evangelism director and chair of the Southwest Baptist University's evangelism department, recognized the pastor's talent and encouraged him. Two weeks later, he took Easterwood to a <a href="http://www.vanoilpaintings.com/">oil paintings </a>workshop out West.<br>
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"I probably would never have done it [seriously pursue art in oils] if he hadn't worked with me, if he hadn't recognized I could do it," the Dexter pastor emphasized. Now he <strong>buy oil paintings</strong> limits himself to oil painting because he wants "to be really good at one thing."<br>
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Easterwood paints "what inspires me," he said. "That usually has to do with the Lord." </p>www.vanoilpaintings.com
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