I have always loved art and felt deeply fascinated by it, but only recently did I begin referring to myself as an artist. For a long time, I felt like an apprentice, or even lesser, a pretender, and therefore unworthy of such a title. This shift in how I viewed myself began with our move across the country. The place we moved into was roughly a third of the size of our previous home, so much of what we owned was sold or given away, including nearly all of my art supplies. I n