Blue Sailing Toddler T-Shirt

Blue Sailing, painting from photograph in cool colors of blue in the water.

I have loved art and being creative from a very young age. While watching my mom, who was a school teacher, work on classroom learning materials, I learned much about being curious, creative, and making do with what you have. Also my father worked as a journalist and news editor for over 35 years. My father had an interest in photography and bought a used Fujica SLR film camera, from a photo journalist he worked with, to take family photos. Later he gave this to me as my first camera. With this camera I started photography around 7th grade, and was involved with school newspapers, and yearbooks, all through school. Classmates began hiring me, for their events and parties. After school, I had planned on working at one of the local...