About Me It was obvious that Adriana Vidal was going to be an artist at a very young age. She was constantly doodling, creating sculptures out of the wax off of Gouda and Edam cheeses, making small animal sculptures out of walnut shells, and coloring outside the lines. Her favorite classes were art and her range spread from scrap paper, cheese wax, and walnuts to watercolors, oils, acrylics, and ceramics. She sold her first piece - a montage in oil of various Native American vignettes to her American History teacher in high school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. While working on a sculpture major in college, the need for art supplies and lab fees led to various jobs that exposed her to business technology for the first time but she felt that technology and art were diametrically opposed. In her mind, you were either an artist or a business person.          After a move to Los Angeles in 1983, a sequence of jobs furthered her interest in technology but art always remained her first love. She often supplemented her income with commissions for various types of artwork - Conte crayon, pen and ink, and polymer clay sculptures. Eventually she got involved in the dotcom industry and designed many brochure websites for other consultants as well as creatively used technology to improve client workflow. This satisfied her creativity to some extent but not completely. A few years later, while designing a software application for a client, she realized that it gave her the perfect balance between creativity and technology. Today she happily designs software and websites while accepting commissions and doodling whenever she has a spare moment.       © 2000, 2001, 2006, 2009 AMVidal. All rights reserved.