Drawing:
Heather Ryan Kelly
This drawing is of one of my favorite art instructors, Heather Kelly. Heather teaches at McNeese State University. The school is located in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The university is featured here in the drawing as a blue metallic building with separate dark blue compartments and a few trees in the background. Actually, the painting studios, which I was attempting to draw in this picture had a flat roof.

I grew up in a small town in Louisiana, I had very little exposure to the arts. The nearest museum was three hundred miles away. I met Heather when I was fourteen. Soon after talking with her I started to think about becoming a painter.