Mary Heilmann was born in 1940 in San Francisco, California. In all of Heilmann’s work, particularly abstract paintings, there is a backstory. Mary explained that the most important part of art is not only its formal value but communicating something like a conversation through the art. She started doing art, to see what response she can get from people with the art. The biggest response she wanted to get was that of antagonism, she stated that she wanted to start trouble. She wanted to be on the edge, original and that meant going against the norm. For her paintings which I sketched one of them called “Hokusai”. She used double square shaped canvises and often she put deep spaces, two squares, and empty spaces to make the wall part of the