The last couple days I have started and finished painting a cow elk skull. My partner found it in the woods near our house and suggested I paint it. Originally, I was nervous to paint it because I didn't want to "ruin it" with a scene or something that wouldn't look right on the unique shape of it. I was also nervous because its a very different kind of canvas. After months of it sitting on our porch, I finally got the motivation to start on it. I purchased some ivory colored

I've always thought of myself as an artist. When I was a kid that's all I wanted to be, after the normal aspirations of being a paleontologist, astronaut, or astronomer. Those ideas never really stuck. I always felt a calling to do art and it was relatively easy as a child to make art all the time. As an adult that became more difficult with responsibilities and social events taking over art-making time. I always found some time here and there, but being able to focus all my