It makes me happy and let’s me create my own worlds and characters to inhabit them. It gives me a sense of peace and accomplishment!
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Mixed media paintings. I like to Start with an acrylic painting as base and add all kinds of papers, strings, ephemera and found objects to bring it some 3D aspect. I love recycling and incorporating old things into new art!
Where do you find inspiration?Nature, Shakespeare’s stories and characters, science, comic books, and my friends and family, the universe,
What would you do with $25,000?I would use 1/3 of the money for jumpstarting the recording and production of my original audio fiction podcast Upon the Wind’s Tide—a steampunk adventure. 1/3 would go to starting an an after school theatre program for underserved kids in Hall County and the last third would be aggressively invested so dividends could be used for both of these projects in the future!
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