Education & Qualifications
I don't think being a skilled Artisan is all about schooling and degrees.
I have a few art awards and have always taken the extra step towards creativity by taking the classes and workshops that have developed me through out my years. I have taken private art lessons, jewelry repair and design classes, and even a few psychology courses. From sowing to soldering. But that doesn't define my artistic creativity, it just helps mold it.
I was once a student of medicine, "because being an intellectual being means using your brain and willpower in different areas of success to make that giant salary," says social standards. But I was never happy, I was lost floating in a abyss of being this ideal person. An illusion of what you should and shouldn't be from what society wants from you.
It took me 5 years to find myself and bring myself back to art. Where I recalled my teachings under Deborah Harkness. Her education included a BA in fine arts. She is (or was) a Private Art Instructor that taught me lessons starting from introduction foundation drawings, introduction to illustration, drawing and design, life drawings, painting, printmaking, pencil, charcoal, calligraphy, oil paintings, oil pastels, watercolor, and some papier mache and sculpting.
She never undervalued my work, and I remembered how she inspired me to push my creativity. I'm unsure ignore what she does now but to this day I will always remember her lessons and appreciate what I have learned from her.