Hello everyone,
My name is Joni and I wanted to introduce myself. I am the oldest child in a family with three children and we were homeschooled by my amazing dad. Since I was homeschooled my entire school life, I have grown to love reading and art. Art is something I have always done, whether it was drawing on paper scrapes to alleviate my boredom or coloring pages off the internet, I had a few different art experiences.
Digital art is becoming a new found stream of income, but I have done it for years a way to store art in a compact form. Windows Paint was a good program for beginners because it allowed for easy access to different art tools without any internet access. Which was good, because it meant that it more secure and it was one less thing my parents had to think about when it came to the internet. Now Windows has moved on to Paint 3D, a program that not only allows you to created 2 dimensional artwork, but also allows you to created 3 dimensional artwork that can be used as project models. However, some of the 3D artwork requires the internet, and maybe signaling that the age of internet-less art creation maybe coming to a close as more programs now require an internet connection to work properly in some form.
That however is a topic for a different time. As I was saying earlier in my post, I also love reading. When I was little, my dad used to read us stories and as we got older, he helped us learn to read. When ever one of us got stuck on a hard word, he made us sound it out or use the dictionary, because he said that if he just told us, we would never truly learn it and would always be returning to him for help. That, at the time, was a little irritating, because it seemed to take more time to go find what we were struggling with, but it has since paid off.
So, what about you? What is something you did growing up with your parents that you are thankful for now?