It wasn’t until after a she was commissioned to paint a two dogs acrylic portrait that Dori considered herself an “artist”. Since then, she has taken illustration and children’s book art courses from Make Art That Sells (Lila Rogers), Story Teller Academy (Arree Chung), and little Blue Mushroom (Kristen Balouch) and is now the proud author/illustrator of the children's book Little Cat Needs Space.