Looks as though it began years and years ago, around the age of 6? I’ve been rummaging through a box of papers that my mom saved from my childhood and found several things that indicate an early interest in cut paper art.
In 2nd grade, and I remember this pretty well, we had occasional art classes with Sister Helen Buessing who was a pretty renowned artist in the area. I made this picture of a caterpillar out of cut construction paper (the dark stripes) and crayon. The original work was more colorful than this. The lighter colored stripes consisted of multiple layers of crayon colors covered with black crayon which was later scratched off to reveal the smooth mixture of colors that lay underneath. Sr. Helen chose some of the works to make into greeting cards, including mine, and this is the only copy I have left. It was pretty neat seeing my work in print back then, and I think I still feel the same excitement seeing it today.
Some new greeting cards rolling out as we speak.