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   The need to be creative started at an early age and I remember the day I decided to become an art teacher.  My class had just returned from a field trip to the airport and our teacher asked us to draw a picture of what we remembered the most.  I drew a picture of a plane in detail. The other kids in the class loved it and asked me to show them how.  Being the new kid in town and finding it tough to make new friends, I remember thinking to myself that this was a way to make new friends.  I was in fourth grade.

 

   When It was time for college, my parents wouldn't let me major in art. They had lived through the depression, and wanted me to be able to support myself with a "real" job.  So I majored in English, but took art courses whenever I could.  In 1973 I earned a lifetime teaching certificate in art through the California Community College District. 

   I'm not hooked on just one subject as many artists are, and I feel the same way about the different mediums made available to artists today.  While graphite is perhaps my first and best love, I also draw with colored pencils and paint in oil, acrylic and pastels.  The subject usually tells me which medium will work best so if it doesn't work in one medium, I'll just start over in another.