Drawing inspiration from life proves the perfect path to finding the American Dream
—By Marisa TreviñoLatinaLista.net
Eva Ruiz, a self-taught artist, finds it's possible to make a living at something that comes natural, as well as, rewarding when giving back.
Eva Ruiz was never the teacher's pet in school. No matter how hard she tried, Eva just couldn't focus on taking the kind of notes her teachers expected. Instead, she filled her notebooks with another kind of note-taking that had nothing to do with school.
"I got into a lot of trouble at school," Eva admitted. "My notebooks were filled with drawings. I was never a good student."
While the rest of the class was learning history or English, Eva envisioned shapes coming alive and parading through her mind. What she saw in her mind's eye was so vivid and amazing that Eva just had to draw it -- on notebook paper.
Eventually, Eva graduated from her spiral notebooks to canvas. Her journey to being a successful artist was the second one this young Colombiana made in finding her "American Dream."
Arriving in Miami from Bogota, Colombia at the age of eleven, Eva, her sister and parents left their friends and family behind in search of a better future for themselves in the United States.
Eva Ruiz focuses on bringing her imagination to life.
For Eva, though creating art came natural to her, it was something she never seriously thought she could make a living at. So, she followed the more traditional route of answering want-ads.











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