At school I was always the kid who would be sketching and scribbling in my books. Teachers and friends, and later my professors, would always ask me to draw this and that. Although I didn't start studying art as a formal subject until my senior years of high school, I was always drawing, colouring, designing lego cities, designing cartoons, reading illustrated books, and had two fantastically talented art teachers that encouraged an inspiring art studio environment where I couldn't get enough. My other subject books were all filled with fancy font headings, and magazine collaged covers, sketches and thumbnails, and I still continue this trend today in my weekly planners and journals. Continuing my passion in art became an outlet where I realised (as a broke college student), you could also make some money with all of this awesome creativity! My sister, art friends and I were always cooking up dye pots for tie dyed garments, and silkscreening T'shirts for every market stall or community event we could attend. This was where my first brand From The Art was born. I still have the screens from the 80's where we would print tags and labels.