After a successful career writing pre-school curriculum, I have retired from the 'real world' to pursue my lifelong dream of creating and selling art. I create in many mediums but my true passions are encaustics (molten wax) and water color pencil portraits. I also work in clay, acrylics, water colors, fabric and re-purposing items that would normally end up in our landfills. As a child, I won numerous art contests and thought I would go immediately into the art world when I grew up. Reality of the literal term starving artist set in quickly so I found a career and worked...more