Since I was 7 years old, I've loved to paint in oil on acrylic. A great disappointment in life is that I didn't become a cartoonist. I always loved to draw on walls, and when I was 12, a mural I painted for my school was placed in the museum at the base of the Statue of Liberty. It was my evocation of the skyline of Manhattan with Lady Liberty in the foreground and it remained in the museum for a year.