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a friend who also loved art. However, Mae’s passion In high school, she joined the student art workshop
for art was fully ignited when she received an art book and religiously stayed after school for daily practice in
collection containing paintings of the world’s master watercolor, oil painting, and charcoal drawing.
artists, which her father bought back from a trip to

Japan. She also painted still life at home, and her mother
provided her with a corner space in the living room to set
She was completely captivated by each artist’s work, up her easel. However, as time passed and the artworks

especially the paintings of Degas and Monet, and used accumulated, she was allowed to use the barn: her first
soft pastels to copy many of those that particularly art studio. For the several years that followed prior to
moved her. With that, her head was full of dreams of her marriage, she spent many happy hours creating oil
being a great artist someday. paintings in her studio.

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