Hi,
I am not an artist, but one of our colleagues, Steele Hill, is an incredible artist. I have not artistic talent at all, although in third grade, we did have art class. My favorite part of art class was working with clay, and of course, I made an ashtray for my mother. She kept it and I inherited it when she died. Another interesting story, and I will be giving away my age (64), while in that third grade art class, I drew a submarine with a red sky for weeks after seeing the movie Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961). I think this drove my art teacher crazy. The movie is about the Van Allen raditation belts (which had only been discovered about three years before the movie was made) catching on fire (which can't happen). Talk about global warming! If you see the movie, you might find it kind of funny. You can learn more about the Van Allen radiation belts here:
https://www.nasa.gov/feat...a-s-first-spacecraft