
Hello
​My name is Leonora, but I prefer the name Leo. I'm 17 and quite the dreamer- Art is nothing but my lifeline. The yellow brick path, I've chosen to follow.
My Story
In my earlier life I lived in between joint custody of both my single mother and my married father. My childhood had by all means been lonely, having limited access to friends. Sheltered and isolated I was never set to win in any personality game, my self identity as a child was locked firmly in old TV shows as well as violent drawings. From a youth I've drawn sorely as a survival technique, a way to keep me sane if you will- it's only as I grew older and moved out of that situation was I finally able to find true joy in putting pencil to paper. I live permanently with my father now, and there is joy in that. I have never really been professionally taught, going to minor camps as a young child, as well as a half finished art class in the sixth grade.
Mostly I draw by eye, teaching myself by copying what is appealing to me. As a junior in high school I haven't a career goal or even a life goal- I just wish to draw and write whatever silly thing comes to me.