Angela Batchelor currently lives in Twin Falls, Idaho with her husband, two sons, dog, and a small flock of chickens. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the College of Southern Idaho teaching courses in Painting, Art History, Book Arts, Calligraphy, and Printmaking. Angela maintains an active studio practice with work that meanders between expressive mark-making and mixed media pieces to ones that focus on religious, social, and scientific themes.    www.angelabatchelorart.weebly.com Like many contributors to the Art Treehouse newsletter and website, I started artistically as an oil painter in college. I loved it, until I hated it. The hating