I am so happy to share this labor of love I worked on for a few months during the holidays. My husband's Aunt Mary Ellen mailed him this photo of his grandfather and some friends at Clarkson University in 1937. The minute I saw the photo, I knew it had to become a painting.

I am an only child raised by a single mother. As a child I was shy, introverted and quiet. Art was my constant companion.

From the age of three I was always drawing. I used chalk, crayons, markers, anything I could get my hands on. My happiest memories are drawing alone in my room with my vivid imagination to keep me company.