Dana's art career began early. As a young child she loved to paint watercolor abstracts and hold art shows in the small shed in her backyard. She'd tack up all of her paintings on the rough wooden walls, cut one up and write her name on it for business cards and the dutifully sit at her Little Tikes play kitchen and wait for her adoring fans and many sales. At her 1st grade art show, her very first pastel painting, a green frog, won best in show and hung in the elementary school office until she graduated from high school. After elementary school, her artwork took a backseat...more