As a child Mary was never without a pencil or crayon and paper to draw on. 'I always doodled, and coloring books were a passion of mine.' Mary grew up in the Pasadena, California area. After her high school graduation, whe married and raised two children. Although she enrolled in the Famous Artist's Course, studing commercial art, the demand of raising a family prevented her from continuing and she put aside her dreams of becoming an artist. Her dream finally came true following her retirement from the real estate business in the early 1980's when she enrolled in the Laguna Beach Schoolk of...more
