Being a new artist, I reflect on spending most of my life praying and hoping that I could one day do my own art. I saw passion, faith, and creativity in others for art but I could not find that in me nor in any of my art, and I craved that. One day recently it found me; the true reasoning of art. Art is the product of human creativity. It is your expressions of truth and ideals, life and dreams. In the past, I was trying to create art for people instead of for me. I was trying to do art for the wrong reason. Finally, a friend said to me, " My paintings are basically layers and layers of imperfections, topped with a solution." To me, she meant