After having worked as a paralegal for almost 30 years and raising a family (which left me no time for art of any kind), in 2002 I made good on a life-long threat to retire and become an artist. I started taking a watercolor class at the local art center ~ and struggled mightily with it. Just as I was beginning to think my dreams of being a 'real' artists were sinking, my instructor/mentor/friend Ruth Glenn Little suggested that I try colored pencils. I could draw ~ and am very detailed and realistically oriented, which colored pencils require ~ and those pencils just grabbed me instantly. They seem to be the perfect media for me....more
