
Can Anyone Be an Artist?
Many adults remember how they loved to paint and draw at primary school. They’d like to try it again, but then performance anxiety kicks in. Fear of making fools of themselves keeps many people away from art lessons. In fact anyone can learn to draw well – you don’t have to be Leonardo or even particularly talented. Drawing is a skill which is picked up with practice: the key is learning to look carefully at an object (we can all do that) and then putting down what you see rather than what you expect to see. Once you can draw, you are three quarters of the