Do you ever feel like you were meant to do something but your fear kept you from accomplishing it? For the first half of my adult life, I feel like I was either distracted by people and things that were harmful or I was just too scared to take the step into believing that I could actually be a full-time artist. For the past year, I’ve been investing my time and energy into my art and I truly feel like I’ve accomplished something great. It might not be everyone’s definition but for me, it’s pretty sweet.

I have officially made and self-published my own book as well as illustrated two other children’s books. On top of being able to create beautiful commissions for amazing people.

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The premise behind the story is we have two adorable guinea pigs and I personally love the elephant and piggie books by Mo Willems so I asked my kids, if the guineas could do ANYTHING what do you think they’d do? And so the book was formed!

I love that I was able to figure out an illustration style, being more of a realistic painter I haven’t tried to do many cartoons. And the pride in my kids’ eyes when they talk about their mama being an artist makes all the hours of labor with it.

I hope that those of you reading this that aren’t sure if you should chase after that crazy dream of yours can be encouraged that it is possible, it just takes a bit of faith and a lot of research lol.

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