I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and was tutored at home. My father didn't think a formal education was necessary for a painter.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.
I've always been a creative person, and I'd always wanted to paint, so I went to art school and began painting and sculpting.
I went to school at the San Francisco Art Institute, thinking I was going to become an art teacher. Within the first six months I was there, I was told that I couldn't be an art teacher unless I became an artist first.
I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art.
I went to art school when I was little.
I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.
As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.
I started painting when I was in high school.
I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.