Elisabetta Percivati

Elisabetta Percivati
by Sherif Awad
I'm from Italy and I grow up in a large family with six kids, I was the youngest. My mother's family was the ones that care more about us on our childhood and they are teaching me the importance of hard-working, studying, simple lifestyle and to keep always the feet on the ground no matter what lifestyle level I will reach. They have also a strong relation with nature (my grandmother used to grow our veggies and fruits) and they teach me to observe and learn from it. I grew up basically in a huge garden full of flowers and kids, my brothers and sisters.
My favourite childhood book was the magical world series books drawn by Tony Wolf. This magical side always fascinated me and growing I stay always on this kind of illustrator. I love the ones that involve a lot the nature on their painting like Mucha, Anne Geddes, Leonardo da Vinci. But I'm a huge fan of Perugino and Botticelli portraits. Nature and grace in both. My favourite childhood movie and tv shows are the ones that later became "geek classics": Jurassic Park, Goonies, Ghostbusters and this stuff that my bigger brothers looked and that I absolutely still love.  
My family taught me that study is very important not for the paper that you grab at the end but for the effort that you are pushing through the process to become a better version of yourself.

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