Hello!!! are you there INSPIRATION!!!!

So I have been up for the last couple of hours thinking and not sleeping (FYI it's 4am) and thinking of where an artist gets their inspiration from. That has always been my downfall, do I even have it? I'm sure I do, I'm just looking in all the wrong places. I have always thought that my heritage is my one and only inspiration (for those that do not know I'm Puerto Rican) so I have always been drawn to that culture and history. I feel that I fall back on that too easily and I don't think of the big picture. How do some people make or get really simple ideas and it's OMG the new dawn of the decade has arrived? I don't get it. Here I am a person who has been drawing since I can remember, taking art lessons from private teachers and I feel, that I am a person who knows how to draw and not an ARTIST!!

Confused yet...stay tuned for more!!!!

Don't get me wrong I love my heritage with a passion, maybe I'm just psyching myself out.

Where to start!!?

As a child my mother encouraged me to draw, paint become some sort of artist. She saw that talent that I had as a child. I lived in Puerto Rico at the time and she would take me every Saturday, to Old San Juan to the Liga de Arte (Art League) to take art lessons, which I had to take with adults because I was too advanced to take the child classes.

She would take me by bus or by car, but somehow we got there. All her hard work, to get that talent refined and I have not done anything with it. My goal is to write my struggles of raising my two beautiful children, work full time, and be a full time wife, while trying to get a series of paintings finished so I can finally get a art show.

I just returned from Puerto Rico, our first family vacation (two kids and a double stoller...what a life saver!!!) and we stopped at the Liga de Arte where I once took classes, to take this picture we stopped traffic...LOL there was no where to park!! :)