An Oklahoma City artist who rediscovered his love for painting after a 65 year break

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Brad Brauser can nonetheless vividly recall his freshman yr at Oklahoma A&M.

He entered an artwork contest for a $100 first prize, however was disqualified as a result of his portray wasn’t but dry.

“It was undoubtedly cheesy,” he admits now.

Upset and indignant, Brad gave away his portray and his paints.

“I gave the portray away and gave away my brushes,” he repeats. “I believed, ‘I’m completed with this and I don’t need something to do with artwork of any variety. Zero.”

He did keep busy although.

Brauser grew to become a physics and science trainer, and a faculty administrator.

He had a roofing and contracting enterprise throughout summers, a jewellery enterprise, and traveled throughout Central America on missions journeys.

“I by no means nervous about doing one thing new,” he says.

However after triple bypass surgical procedure in 2018, his spouse purchased him artwork provides for his birthday to get him shifting once more.

By Thanksgiving he was again on the easel.

“You realize, that wasn’t to dangerous,” he remembers pondering. “I is likely to be onto one thing right here.”

Assignments have been one thing he was used to giving out as a trainer.

Brauser gave himself an task when he began art work once more, 83 work by his 83rd birthday.

That was a number of years in the past and he’s nonetheless maintaining to his dedication even when the muse is silent.

“That’s robust,” he tells himself. “That’s what I got down to do and that’s what I’m going to do.”

His landscapes replicate his travels.

Geometric research in triangles replicate his curiosity in science.

He begins every portray now by no means actually realizing the place it’s going to take him, or what discoveries he would possibly make alongside the best way.

On today, his brush is a bit of uncooked broccoli he makes use of to render leaves on a special sort of foliage.

“You type of work and see the way you need the colours to move,” he tells us as he dabs paint on his canvas.

A former pupil found Brauser’s rekindled art work and gave him area at a gallery.

On a Memorial Day weekend, in his 86th yr, Bradley Brauser, Artist, has yet one more profession to color onto his lengthy resume.

It’s one thing that retains his going, and one thing it turned out he might do all alongside.

“Self discovery, to me,” he states, “is nearly the whole lot.”

Brauser is promoting and displaying his work on the 2022 Paseo Arts Competition, Friday by Sunday, Could 27-29.

For extra data on the Competition, go to www.thepaseo.org/pageant.

For extra on Brauser’s work go to www.bradleybrauser.com.