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Posted inVisual Arts

Finally Painting With Passion: Laura Janes Gave Up a Lucrative Art-Commission Career to Make Her Own Creations

It all started with a crayon crisis. “I distinctly remember that at age 7, I had a major crisis—deciding which of two distinctly different shades of green Crayola crayons would be best for my ‘latest masterpiece,’” Laura Janes said. “And with that decision, I knew that art and painting were my future.” Much of the […]

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