My Heart's Creation of Art Bio

Hi, my name is Vero... well, actually its Veronica but I go by Vero. My preferred name. I'm from California but reside in good ol'... well, another state. And no, its not the state of 'denial', hahaha! I am Hispanic... as you can probably tell in my picture. I've been mistaken as Hawai'ien (<<spell check), Native American, New Zealander, Indian... everything but Salvadoreña Americana. I love giving people a chance to figure out what my nationality is. It can be quite entertaining. There was once, I just sat and curiously listened to what was the end result of two cute little old men arguing where I am from. It lasted a good half an hour. Funniest conversation in my life! I am pretty sport, and I am a terrible writer. I might accidentally write things in Spanglish. That's my brain not turning off the other language for me. *shrug*

My boyfriend and I have some adorable fur babies that I will show in the following pictures.
Here they are, they are our love of our lives:

This Oreo, isn't she adorbable? I'm biased. Lol!

Sally

Mango

Here is his sister, Snickers, I like to say she likes to hang out in the "jungle", hehehe.

Boots, his my heart stealer, such a sweet little guy

Anyway, I have drawn ever since I can remember. I use to sit during class and do portraits of my friends when they weren't paying attention, never keeping them, I wish I never gave them away. Lesson learned.

I always thought I would be an Artist for Walt Disney. An Imagineer (<<I'm spelling it wrong, aren't I?). Word on the street is they do more computer art/graphics... which truthfully, it hurts my vision. So of course, that went out the door but I still wanted to draw for them.... not really sure why but that's what I wanted since I was a child.

I love Disney and their movies. And my neighbor, she was (or maybe still is) an Disney Illustrator/ Imagineer (??) and a wonderful human being! She and a few other people have pushed me several times to keep practicing, keep working on it, and as time goes by, I will get better. Recently, I put up a picture of something I had drawn and surprisingly won First Place. I cried.

My boyfriend and a few friends are exciting to see that I am picking my lost hobby: Drawing and painting.

Anyhow, I stopped drawing years ago because repeatedly  I was told its "a dead end job", "I would have no future in it", "stop drawing, its ridiculous! Do something easy like a desk job". I do a desk job *sigh* but I also paint. I haven't stopped with the drawing or painting completely. I can't. But I did stop believing in myself. I graduated in Arts for my Associate's Degree and have done really nothing sense. It hasn't been since recent years where I was begged from some friends to draw for them. To compete in a carving a pumpkin, something I've never done. I did, and I won. I once put in my art in the State Fair. I was deathly afraid to do it but I won First Place in Amateur (something) and I cried.

I draw for fun and sometimes I paint for homemade gifts. As I have grown, I'd like to do a little more than work at a desk job. I'd like to explore and grow in the world of art, I'd like to show off my talent and I'd like to love what I do a little more. So here goes.... nothing as some people say. *sigh*

The purpose of this page is to give me the courage to show off my skills, and hopefully, one day, sale my art work.

Here is a picture of me, just a day hanging out with elephants, hahaha, actually we were visiting 'Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum' in Oregon.

If you have a love or a dream to do something just because someone else doesn't believe in it, doesn't mean you shouldn't believe in you. Believe in yourself. Dream big and make your dreams come true.  Just a thought.