My favorite hobbies as a child included painting, drawing and playing musical instruments and the people who were close to me would often comment on how talented I was. I have always known that my career path should be in the arts but I have never had any formal training. I took a class on web design in 1998 because I thought it would be a good creative outlet but it wasn't until October of 2013 that I discovered that I had the potential to become an artist. I discovered this through a good friend and mentor who was also an artist and saw something in my art that he thought was very...more