When Kirk Charlton was five years old, he gave his grandmother a drawing of a horse getting stung by a bee. “She could have said a lot of things like, ‘Oh, wow, that’s cool.’ Or, you know, ‘That’s great. Appreciate it.’ But when I gave it to her eyes got really big,” Kirk says. “And she said, ‘This is incredible. This is unbelievable. I’m gonna hang it on the refrigerator, and I want you to draw me something else.’