Who or what got you into Art?

For me it was a field trip to the Columbus Art Museum. We saw Vincent Van Gogh's charcoal drawings and a couple of his paintings. I was totally  taken with the drawings.

Monet was cartoonist drawing pictures of his neighbors when his aunt sent him to Paris and Art School. Renoir was painting scenes on plates. Then someone asked him to paint a mural on the wall of their restaurant.

For others it seems they had no choice but  to follow their family or others still to break away from the family business. Many like Van Gogh who had tried several other professions and failed. But I will say this in his manic way he mastered drawing and painting in two years.

Okay now you? Who or what or even why did you get into this crazy wonderful thing?

Lets get our brushes wet and paint on!