I began my first mural when I was 2 years old, painting a lovely pastoral village scene in correct perspective.

 

My mother wept great tears of joy and pride, and never removed the mural. It sold with the house several years later.

 

Now, it has been years, since I was 28, that I have focused solely on computer art, and I find that after all those years away from traditional media, I am strongly desiring to start painting in oils and watercolors again.

 

I have been experimenting with Giclee printing methods, and then taking transparent alkyd based oil paints to add a top layer to the printed card, making each one a true work of individual collectors art. These runs will be limited, and the actual Giclee over-painted card will be a 1 of 1 edition. I am so excited with how my early test mockups have turned out, that I have added them to my material portfolio. No one would ever guess that they began in a computer. They look just like a hand-painted oil.

 

I am a self-taught artist, suddenly deciding at the ripe old age of 32 to buy my first computer. I played games for about a month, and learned DOS. Then I heard of a program called Painter, and also Photoshop, Poser, and 3d Studio. I put down my games and forgot to eat or sleep. Creation of art in this wonderful new tool called a computer was all I could think about.

 

Within 6 months time, from the time I purchased my art software, I found my first job, working as a artist doing website design for Freddie Mac in the Washington DC area. I left my home, my husband and family behind, and moved to DC, where I worked for years as a commercial artist.

 

Lots of people are confused when they hear I am a Catholic Wiccan by nature. Maybe I am just wishywashy, but I see it as having the best of both systems of belief, and believe me, both systems of belief are extraordinarily wholesome. I feel blessed to have found myself at last.

 

I recently read an excellent book called The Path of a Christian Witch. I hope when you have time, you too will read it, and learn how we reconcile two diversely opposite faiths into one body of love.