How It all started

It was 1997 & my father had a computer in his office, I was allowed to use it to create book report covers and type papers. He had a program called "Print Shop" and another one called "Paint". I used the program paint to draw little Grateful Dead Bears, by zooming into the pixels I made the shapes of the ears and faces. I made rainbow portals in the program Print by creating and repeating the circle shape, then adjusting the size & color. My father walked in and saw what I was doing. He said, "You will go to school for Commercial Art." And that was that!
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Before that I was decoupaging furniture with cut up magazines and making manifestation boards on poster board from CVS. The truth is I've been doing this since I was like 11 years old! I think my constant desire to create was a trauma response to some of the very difficult things I experienced as a child.
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The truth IS though- I didn't learn much of anything at all in the Photoshop Courses that I took at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, or the other Art schools I attended. I learned by working with professionals and developing my own creative techniques on my own to create my own specific visions and style.
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And that is what my course will help you do, develop your skills to apply to your own style of work. So if any of this resonates with you...creating art to express and process your emotions, using photoshop as your vehicle of expression?
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