I am an aspiring artist. I have dream of sitting in my own art studio, listening to Alison Krauss or Nat King Cole, painting and drawing stories that inspire me and others. Love the world of illustration and want to be apart of it. Norman Rockwell, Thomas Kinkade, and Beatrix Potter are a few of my old favorites. Along with Justin Gerard, Julia Denos, and Robin Preiss Glasser as some of the new. This is my favorite quote from Norman Rockwell, "The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be."