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oh... come...on. Thank you but i just watch a lot of you tube videos on how to paint. im soooo grateful on the generous information professional artist give out for free to the people like me. you can really get an education watching you tube. Honestly I could take out a kidney just watching all of the instructional videos ha ha

If you mean self taught by meaning that you do not have a college degree in art then you must mean you have a natural facility that you are developing by doing. Submit this in the same contest as the others. You are not a raw talent, just an undiscovered one.