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 hygeine items that I desperately need and if I have enough after that I will try to get more art supplies. Maube I could finally get real art graphite pencils and paper and colored pencils.