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About the Author
One day, I drove down the Venice Blvd., I saw two pretty pictures on a yard sale. I stopped my car and bought them. They are printings of Maurice Utrillo's paintings. I don't know Utrillo at all at that time. Buy, I like the pictures so much, so I do some research and found that Utrillo is a famous artist of France, and his story lead me to the road of painting. I went to West Los Angeles College to apply to an evening painting class. Usually, a college will not let a student learn painting without a drawing background, but WLAC give s me a chance, even I have no art background at all. My English is limited, and my teacher, Mr. Carlos Ramos, came from Mexico, I can not follow the teacher's instruction very well. I just guess what he said. My first painting is a duplication of my teacher's work. The other teachers and students said that my work is better than my teacher's. Since then, the door of my creative reserve was opened. As a new immigrant, life is tough sometimes, especially when your English is not good enough. Different culture often causes misunderstandings and conflict. Nature and freedom are the main tones of my paintings. My paintings are music, still music.
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