David Bromstad went from struggling artist with a thing for color to TV design star.

The champion of HGTV’s first Design Star reality series in 2006 and former Disney illustrator got his own show, Color Splash, and a line of eco-friendly paints that debuted in April.

“I can’t even tell you how much my life has changed all in the most wonderful, incredible, fantastic ways,” he says. “I loved my life before. I’m an artist. I paint. But I’ve really loved what’s happened, too. I get to work with such wonderful people. It’s so fabulous. I still pinch myself.”

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