Welcome to my art blog.   Since I was a little girl I enjoyed drawing.   My first piece of work that I can remember was when I was in T1 (or transitional first grade).   I drew a wolf head on a standard piece of typing paper with your standard HB pencil.   I was so proud of that artwork because it was 1) a wolf which at the time was my favorite animal – other than a horse of course – and 2) was the first piece of art that my teachers really showed off.   My T1 teacher took it to show it off to my future 1st grade teacher.   I was so proud. After that I drew here and there, but really didn’t start developing my skills till junior high school.   To be accepted into the advanced art class in eight grade I had to show a portfolio of work that consisted of at least ten pieces.   I was determined to be in the advanced class after spending a year in the regular 7 th grade art class where we learned about monochromatic scales and complementary colors and painted with tempera paint.