I think my happiest art moments are when I'm painting "funky stuff!"  I love to look at something and simplify it, exaggerate it, change the colors, twist it around all kinds of ways, explore - and just think about how to make it fun.    

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"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model."   Vincent Van Gogh
"It took me 4 years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."  Pablo Picasso