I'm 25 years old and I grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. When I was in grade school, my mother was in school for interior architecture, and she would bring me to class with her. I would actually pay attention and learned a lot about color theory and different materials and techniques. She would let me use her materials and let me help her when she was doing faux finishes or tiling jobs at the house. I never took any sort of forrmal art classes except for Art I in high school. I dabbled with painting and sketching during my years in college, doing a handful...more