I loved art when I was a child

Feedback from Diane Dalton

I loved art when I was a child, and was lucky to be one of two children recommended by my grade school for free lessons at the Toledo Museum School of Art on Saturday mornings. Luckily, my best friend, Karen, was the other child recommended. The teachers introduced us to many different tools for art such as perspective drawing, blackening art paper with graphite and the reverse drawing with an eraser, Covering a sheet of paper with crayons of all colors — then covering over the colors with black crayon–then using a scraping tool to draw a picture where the colors come through, using pastels and rapidograph pens, and watercolors.

Unfortunately, my parents thought art should only be a hobby and steered me away from a very good art teacher at my high school into “College Prep” courses even though the had always bought me all the tools for art that I wanted.

In college, I ended up studying Film and Television, taking adult education classes in figure drawing and Photography. I worked for years as a Graphic Artist in television creating computer graphics for the 5, 5:30 and 6 pm newscasts.

While working, I discovered creating digital art from photographs, mine and others, and altering them with Photoshop and Painter and, sometimes, trying to make them look like paintings. You can see that work a Daltonart.com. Working in digital art made me wish I had taken painting classes as I have always wanted, and still want to do.

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