Born and raised in the beautiful state of Maine, from a very young age, I exhibited a propensity for fine art, designing and drawing clothing for my paper dolls and pictures of this and that! In my early teens, I discovered I was quite good at sketching portraits of people, my very first being of the actor, Eric Estrada. But, it wasn't until I attended fine art classes at the University of Maine at Augusta that any artistic talent I was born with, really began blossoming, as I tell people. This is how it seemed to me, anyway. Majoring in the Fine Arts Associates Degree...more