Diane has always been an artist.
End, period, and dot.
And as much as she would like regale you of how she has been drawing since she was a wee lass, has always been creative, yadda yadda - it is much too similar to other artist bios’ statement of "I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil.”
I mean, it’s true - don’t get me wrong - but I’m sure you’ve heard it all before. It’s a bit cliché, so let's go with this...
Diane likes art.
I mean, she really likes drawing and crafting and just making things in general. Creating is who she is. She also likes to horde, I mean collect, art supplies. It's her passion. Creating. Obviously not the collecting. Actually, that too. She likes to collect art and office supplies. It is quite a copious collection, bordering being a really small art store shoved inside her garage and closets. And some (like her husband) would say she tends to take her art (and collecting) a bit “extra.”
She likes to learn.
If she didn't like to learn new things, then she would have definitely picked another career. Art is about constantly learning and constantly changing yourself. When you don't open yourself to learn or have the will to change and improve yourself, you’re not really doing the whole "art" thing. You’re constantly rediscovering, changing and adapting yourself to all the new things that you learn. It’s quite an extensive (and never-ending) process - but she likes that.
She also likes to teach.
Teaching comes in all forms, whether it's teaching her clients a little bit of design to help them understand or teaching students how she draws, she likes to do it. Why? I think it’s because she likes to share. She likes sharing what she’s learned with others. She also likes to help. And what is teaching but just another form of helping others?
She also likes tea.
Not that this is super important but she really likes tea. “She bought a home that was within walking distance of a tea shop”-levels of liking tea. It brings her joy and her favorite tea is honey milk tea. But she likes most black and green teas. (Oolong tea is right out though.) Something about honey milk tea is just so simple, classic and comforting - that’s why it’s her favorite. Plus the tea shop nearby has AMAZING honey milk tea. Win-win.