I dabbled at drawing throughout my younger years. I drew pencil drawings from the pictures I took of the animals we shipped on airplanes around the world at our family business; an animal transportation agency. Never really painting seriously, I attended Palomar College in North County San Diego California for commercial art and then El Camino in Redondo Beach and Santa Monica College in California taking classes towards my AA in Art all the while working as a bookkeeper/receptionist at the business. I took classes like Printmaking, Commercial art fundametals, Color Theory at Woodbury...more