From: CO Springs, COI have been doing art for about 7 years. I do a lot of self-help/mental health/drug & alcohol treatments, and one of the distraction tools is art therapy. I couldn't draw a stick figure when I started! The more I used art therapy as my tool for not using substances/mental health support, I noticed I was getting better- and I'm doing it all the time now! I do art to bring joy to myself and others, and mainly my family. Financial reasons, too. If my art sells, I will use the funds from the sale of my art to buy phone time to talk to my family, mainly! I will buy hygiene items that I desperately need, and if I have enough after that, I will try to get more art supplies. Maybe I could finally get real art graphite pencils and paper and colored pencils.