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Well, art and I have neven been close. I appreciate it off course, but observing was the extent of my experience with it. For my birthday in July 2018 I receive a small watercolor set as a gift. Somehow she saw a couple of my paint by numbers adventure in the previous 6 months and believed I had a talent that me, at 56 years of age, was yet to discover. The paint by numbers story was just a way I found to distract myself after a working day. The house was too quiet with the kids gone. Being entertained with the easy to do canvas was a good exercise to kill time instead of allowing it to kill me. I am no genius but I can apply paint number 1 to spaces numbered with 1 and that folks was it! That was all of my art experience. I tried and failed horribly...my relationship with watercolor was a love-hate - 'maybe I can x heck I can't' type of relationship. It was, for a little while, filled with annoyance, exasperation, and disappointment. It almost convinced me that whatever she thought it was there it wasn't. After all, I was never an artist, my life was filled with practical and plain survival skills and here I was, for a second, believing that I was maybe able to paint, to create, to copy nature... Well, I am a 'little' stubborn, so I spent the next couple of months watching every video I could find on watercolor basics and started again. By December I was able to paint holiday cards to family, friends, colleagues, and clients...and that was how this love affair started. Now here I am, selling prints and originals online and doing some private commission. It is humbling and completely mind-blowing stuff I tell you. So, the short of this long story is, when first you don't succeed, try again, and again and again. You might have a talent inside that you are completely oblivious about it, and is just asking for a chance to grow. Also, forget about how old or how young...give it a shot and let it surprise you.