I began to consciously draw at six years old. At seven years, I decided on the priorities of the images and began to paint space, stars, the moon and space rockets. At 10 years of age for my birthday, I was given a thick book. It was called 'The young artist'. It contained the many collected masterpieces from the world art and architecture. Many illustrations, brief bibliographic texts, art summaries, etc... I liked it a lot - especially the works of Leonardo da Vinci as a whole. Later, he became my idol and 'Mental Master'...more