I admit it! I am untrainable! I have dropped out of every art class I have ever taken! I don't have the patience it takes to learn how to do art! I have discovered that I am one of those people who learn art the best by doing rather than by studying how to do art!
I have tried taking various art classes over the years but I could never stay with it. I dropped out every time and usually after the first class.
You should have seen me in those art classes. I would sit in the back corner trying so hard to concentrate on what the teacher was teaching. Before long though, I would lose interest and end up doing my own thing while the teacher was still trying to teach. It was painful to try to sit and listen. I couldn't wait till the class ended. I had no patience or stamina for it. Then I would go home all depressed and frustrated with myself. I would end up thinking that I will never be an artist even though that is what I wanted to be more than anything else.
One thing that especially bothered me about the art classes I attempted to take is that they were always geared towards realistic art. It took me a long time to realize that my passion was not realistic art. I didn't want to learn how to make a tree look like a tree. My passion, I finally discovered, was to put what I was feeling on the canvas as quickly and simply as I could.
The good news is that even though I was an art class drop out, I did finally discover the artist within after a lot of years of experimenting with my art materials.
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