We acquired skill in things like pottery, graphics, stagecraft, silvercraft, and many more. As I recall, I had two semesters of fine art painting which, I knew, hardly qualified me for anything more than wannabe artist. I spent the next 40 years or so doing what women of that generation did: marriage, motherhood, divorce, work and so on well into my sixties. When I could, I dabbled in paint and paper craft. Then I retired and decided I would see how far I could go with a commitment to develop my skill in these media. Having little confidence in my ability as a painter, I settled on finding out what I could do with paper. It didn't take long for me to realize the answer to that question was-- not much. And when I became aware of the works of real paper artists such as these at https://mymodernmet.com/stunning-paper-art/  I just gave up the whole idea. Besides I was way more interested in image-making as an art of cultivation rather than engineering--as I described in my previous post. The pictures below represent my progress from about 2012 to the present.