My Dad had a printing business when I was young, and I loved to go down to the printing plant and watch as the big presses created shiny pages of color. Actually, the end product was usually annual reports or other business publications, but I was fascinated by the colors that were used, layer on layer, on the beautiful paper.  I was already in love with color and paper, when a second grade classmate told me, “You draw good trees!”; the decision was made in that moment...I was going to be an artist.