{"id":10831,"date":"2024-05-30T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/?p=10831"},"modified":"2024-05-30T14:19:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T18:19:21","slug":"get-to-know-glenn-ivie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/floridanewsline.com\/Clone2\/creekline-st-johns\/get-to-know-glenn-ivie\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know \u2026 Glenn Ivie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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By Martie Thompson
editor@floridanewsline.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glenn Ivie has been a painter all his life, but while a student at the University of Florida, he shied away from a degree in fine arts because of his perception of a \u201cstarving artist.\u201d Instead, he earned a degree in advertising design and embarked on a career in commercial art. He spent 20 years working for the William Cook Agency in Jacksonville before deciding to make a go of it on his own in 2000. \u201cGlenn Ivie Art and Design\u201d kept him busy for another eight years, during which time he had the honor of producing a \u201cpitch\u201d book that was utilized during the bid to bring the Super Bowl to Jacksonville. He next developed a website that allowed users to convert their photos to paintings on canvas before deciding to retire just before COVID hit. \u201cI missed the creativity after I retired, so I picked up the paint brushes again and started creating art,\u201d Glenn said. Today he is a member of the St. Augustine Art Association and the First Coast Plein Air Artists group and his paintings are in acrylics and oils (rather than his original watercolors) with a more impressionistic technique. He and his wife Trish just celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary and live in St. Johns. They have three adult children and five grandchildren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: How did you meet your wife?<\/strong>
A: Trish and I met in 10th grade English class at Robert E. Lee High School (now Riverside High School). We dated a bit and also dated other people. We reconnected in college at the University of Florida and by the end of college knew we were the ones for each other. We married over Spring Break, on March 17. We have found over the years that it is hard to go out for an anniversary dinner to a restaurant without corned beef and green beer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: Tell us about your online business, YourPhotoToPainting.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A: I had gotten pretty good at using Photoshop, so I came up with the idea for this website in 2010. People would upload their photos and I used a proprietary blend of Photoshop filters to create a digital painting that I would put on canvas for a fraction of what a painting would cost. This led to NBC Sports commissioning a painting of the former US Open champions at Pebble Beach. I shuttered the business in 2019 when Trish and I decided it was time to retire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: What made you decide to \u201cunretire\u201d in the time of COVID?<\/strong>
<\/strong>A: Once I retired, I started fishing because I thought that\u2019s what you were supposed to do when you retired. I also found out that my St. Johns County Library Card could be used to download books to my Kindle, so I read a ton of books. But I quickly became bored and missed the creativity of painting. I started following various artists on Instagram and realized that painting didn\u2019t have to always be so realistic. I decided to paint in a more impressionistic style and also changed from watercolors to acrylics and oils. I found that there is something magical about getting immersed in a painting \u2014 and not all paintings go the direction you originally thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: What is your favorite thing to paint?<\/strong>
A: Right now I am painting a lot of landscapes and local marshes. I\u2019m fascinated by the shadows at sunrise and sunset. Trish is my scout to find locations. I have committed to painting three hours a day in the mornings and this has really given my spirit a whole new life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q: How did you come up with the idea for your blog, \u201cLoving Perspectives?\u201d<\/strong>
<\/strong>A: My new website had a blog platform that allows visitors to comment and get a conversation going, so I decided to start the blog. Everyone in life faces difficulties at one time or another and after 71 years of living, I feel I\u2019ve accumulated a good perspective on life. I thought I could help by giving people encouraging words if they need it. I have a new blurb up every Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Author\u2019s Note: Visit <\/em>https:\/\/glenniviefineart.com\/<\/em><\/a> to view some of Glenn Ivie\u2019s works and to read his \u201cLoving Perspectives\u201d blog.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo courtesy Glenn Ivie
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