This is Day 6 of the 7 Day Blog Challenge with Dr. Jeanette Cates. I am Ellene Breedlove Davis
Learning to honor your creative spirit is a prerequisite to being an artist.
As a child did you doodle, draw or make objects from sticks, pipe cleaners or clay?
Or, you may have been like I was. I was the oldest of 7 children, we lived on a farm and there just wasn’t much time to do these things. Our school was a very small country school so there wasn’t much mention of art. If we got it, we got it from some other student that could draw, etc.
When I was 39, my 8 year old son, wanted to learn to draw race cars. Since there was a new art store in our hometown we went down and enrolled him. We still lived in the country and I waited until his class was over. During this waiting period, I watched his cute as a button art teacher make her brush sing. I had always been a craft type person and I wanted what she had.
Long story short, I enrolled in an oil painting class with her. The first class, she encouraged me to learn to doodle and to wear jeans to class.
That class was 30+ years ago, and I still see her, making her brush sing with that left hand. From my first teacher, I learned that I was creative, and could paint original oil paintings.
My teacher was passionate about all things art and passed that on to her students. She instilled in me the love of art and I have never left it. The passion is still with me, even tho it has been many years since I learned to paint.
I want to encourage to honor your creative spirit by following your passion. You may have chosen another skill, other than painting, but whatever your choice of creativity, practice it, experiment and use it to the best of your ability to bring joy to others.
Remember that great things are done when the creative instinct of an artist is recognized and, the artist takes the action to bring that art into being.
“Honor Your Creative Spirit!”
Ellene
PS To the right at the top of the page there is a picture that tells you that there is an MP3 there. I invite you to listen all the way through, implement the suggestions included and learn to be all that you can be as an artist.
