My interest in art began when I was young. In my early school years, my favorite part of school was 'free time,' when I was allowed to go to the back of the room where there stood a big easel with poster sized paper attached to it and large bottles of poster paint sitting on the shelf just below. I would open those big bottles of poster paint and just start painting. I loved to paint and I loved being creative with all the bright poster paint colors of red, yellow, and green, blue, black and white. I thought that was the greatest thing on earth, however my painting career...more