Over the past four years I have taken many art classes with lots of different teachers. I love to draw and paint but truthfully this is not one of the areas that I have the most talent but for me it doesn't matter. I just love doing it. I had a really talented teacher once who I could tell was becoming a little frustrated with me because I wasn't progressing as fast as some of the other students. One day she told me, "Just draw what you see!" And that is when it hit me. I was! I just wasn't seeing the flowers or the trees or the people in the same way she was seeing them. And having been a teacher myself who believed that all students were different and deserved to be taught in different ways I was Ok with the fact that I saw things slightly differently than everyone else in the class. And with that knowledge came such a sense of relief. My paintings didn't have to look perfect. The buildings could lean a little to the left if that is what I saw. I could change the colors to suit me not paint only what the color wheel said was complimentary. So now I do draw and paint what I see and I couldn't be having more fun. What do you see?
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