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LOS ANGELES FIRM INC MAGAZINE MAY / JUNE 2015 What made you want to start drawing? It is not one single thing that maybe wanted to start drawing and painting and being creative and I just loved using my hands to create something I can remember back as far as five years old creating a pirate flag with a piece of black material I found and then use the piece of white chalk rather than drawing the traditional skull and cross bones I drew an intricate pirate ship with the sails up at full mast! I just remembered felt real good to have had made something rather than go to the store and buy that item. What is your main goal as an artist? my main goal as an artist is to just continue to create hopefully on a daily basis something that will make few people feel something when they see a painting or even a sculpture I want them to go away with the thought wow I need to chase my own dreams, whatever those are whatever those were whatever I thought was beyond my grasp. Another part of the goal would be to have a big gallery get behind me so I can focus totally on my arm and not the business end of things. Do you have other interest besides art? yes aside from Art I have many interests which include The charity work I do especially with the dream Center in Los Angeles, my involvement with Shanes Inspiration (they build parts all over the country and world that are completely accessible for people with disabilities specially wheelchairs along with that there’s an educational program we bring a busload of disable children to the park along with the busload of able-bodied children we then pair them off one on one for about four hours so that they can interact and realize this able children have the same desires when it comes to play and living life is an able-bodied child it’s a beautiful thing to watch and witness! Some other I Love to do is go waterskiing on a ski I designed for quadriplegics I love to go boating I love concerts ballgames just to name a few. WWW.BIGBADRED.COM Как долго вы занимаетесь проектированием и обработкой изображений? Я занимаюсь ретушью с 2011 года, но создавать коллажи и рисунки я начала еще раньше. В 2006 году. Какова ваша любимая программа для обработки изображений? Adober Photoshop, я пользуюсь только им. What is it about ART that first attracted you? Чтобы вы хотели what о себе our first рассказатьis it aboutкак о attracted while there are so many things but just being a kid at five years old when I did that first piece of art which was a Pirates flag I had found a black piece человеке? of canvas говорить Я не очень люблюand I drew on it with white chalk and it was not in your typical Pirates flag with a skull мои работы о себе, думаюand cross bones but a pirate ship is what I drew onto my flight. Another thing I remember early on driving могут рассказать обо мне обоthrough Malibu Canyon with my whole family (my three sisters one brother and my mom) my dad was driving I remember once we got through the Canyon Tonмне больше, чем я сама. nele there was a crowd of people looking on the rocks above the tunnel somebody it painted Сколькоthe nude woman which then was seen on the news and everything for some reason seeing наград за свои people reaction in the великолепные работы news reacting I just knew I wanted to be an artist so I could make some sort of an impression on people and move them in a way that they had never been moved вы имеете? before. For me making heart is doing something that makes somebody feel something either Честно говоря, мне не consciously or subconsciously and hopefully bringing something out of them that would turn приходилось участвовать ни в positive. каких значимых конкурсах. Who are some of the individuals that influenced you as an artist? . while asking who influenced me as an artist is tough to say probably Michelangelo because Откудаtrip we took as a family to Italy in 1976 going through all those cathedrals seeing all of the вы? Я родилась в beautiful но the России, painting see it painted the Sistine Chapel in various places throughout the city. проживаюThere are two local artist that They are Ed and Andy Moses A father and son I know Andy сейчас в Украине, Киев. personally and his work is something that just is so different so amazing and so beautiful I’m inspired by both of their work as work is always changing and he’s probably into his 80s and still very prolific that’s the way I want to be continually going after my craft and always creating something until the day I die.