Then go for it.

Part 2. The painter as prodigal

I always wanted to be a painter. Of course you have.

You know an artist named Frank Johnson?

At age 18, he decided to become a cartoonist.

So what? I've been a painter for years, but I ain't happy.

He was a souvenir salesman who always wanted to be a painter, and I was Frankie P. Toronto.

So, I wanted to be a painter like him, except, I don't know how to paint.

I was in India, and I was walking down the streets, and I saw a billboard painter.

So, surely a passionate drawer like Leonardo must have made self portraits from time to time.

The sculptor Richard Serra talks about how, as a young artist, he thought he was a painter, and he lived in Florence after graduate school.

Starting with the awesome art we have more than 20 artists and designers working on the new version.

In 1940, expecting the birth of his son, he found work as a farmhand to support the growing family but by 1941 he returned to Paris to exhibit in the Gallery Braun show 20 Young Painters that ushered into France the non figurative movement.