Although I have studied with a number of well known artists and have taken classes in drawing and painting at the Atlanta College of Art (now, SCAD, Atlanta) and Emory University, I am basically self-taught. While a class can introduce you to a variety of styles and techniques, it is only through trial and error that you learn to apply those techniques and develop your own style. An artist learns the craft by doing. What defines an artist is not the degrees held or the classes taken, but innate creativity and the number of miles put on a brush and the number of gallons of paint applied to...more
