Hello, I am Amanda and I welcome you. I'm a self taught artist and I've been painting about ten years now. I just recently became serious about my painting. I have always wanted to paint like the old masters and would become very frustrated with my work. I have always felt as if something was missing. One day I was showing my work to a fellow artist, he studied it for a while then asked me something no one has asked before, How do you feel about it? I've never thought about it before. It was in that moment I realized what...more