I have loved art since high school. I took classes in high school and also some college courses in Florida and Kentucky. I work in many mediums including oil, acrylic, colored pencils and pastels. My favorite medium is colored pencil and I usually paint portraits as my main subject. Pastels are a new medium for me and I have fallen in love with them due to the ease of laying down the color, no messy mixing, beautiful colors and easy clean up. I worked in a frame shop in Tennessee as a picture framer for 7 years. During that time, I was able...more