| "What do you mean you're not a real artist!" people say to me. Well, I'm not...at least not in the technical sense, and not any more than most people. The only difference is that I'm too naive not to try.
I have yet to meet anyone who does not wish that he or she
were an artist. Just go down and hang out in your local art and craft store and you'll see the looks of longing as the shoppers take in all the offerings that, if combined, might actually look
like something. The problem is, what and how to combine....
The last time most of us even attempted anything artistic was probably in about 7th grade when our real goal in art class was
to emancipate the wig from the head of the 85-year-old teacher. Okay, maybe that's my own personal memory, but I believe we
all have a similar one--if we were even lucky enough to have an
art class available to us.
The wonderful thing about art is that the opportunity to learn it
is all around us every day. If we have eyes to see, then our
studio is everywhere. I used to get in trouble for daydreaming
and staring out the window at school. It didn't occur to me until
much later that I was studying harder than anyone in the room---
just not the right stuff at the right time.
With my 7th-grade art education and a lifetime of staring at the details of the world I shall continue to do what I was doing when last seen in an art class-- |
