I have been drawing since I was old enough to hold a crayon.I have no formal training, just art class in high school, so I guess its safe to say that I am self taught. I get my inspiration from many different things, books, music, mother nature. I have always loved fairy tales, fantastical places, and magical beings, so painting them seems very natural to me. Fairies are always so much fun to paint, I can sit down and put pen to paper and they just appear, so to speak. Painting is my form of meditation, an escape from the everyday nonsense that seems to take over...more