Recently I was sitting at someone’s kitchen table creating art. A five year old boy was sitting across from me. At the table there were others all drawing the same image freehand. The five year old though had borrowed his sister’s cell phone. He looked up an image of what he wanted to create online. Soon he began to get frustrated. Then he got angry. He couldn’t create the image exactly as it was online. Out poured a flood of negativity. “ I cannot draw this. I am not good. I can’t draw.”
It was painful to watch him. I tried to explain to him that copying is not creating. I told him that no two drawings are alike. I encouraged him to just draw without the phone. He was too busy comparing his art to his older brother’s. Unfortunately this happens more often than I care to think. I read an article in the local paper about an art teacher who told her pupil: You didn’t draw it right. The child’s mother was incensed. There is no wrong or right in art.
What is the biggest obstacle to creativity ? Attachment to outcome. As soon as you become attached to a specific outcome, you feel compelled to control and manipulate what you are doing and in the process you shut yourself off to other possibilities. Creativity is not just about succeeding. It is about experimenting and discovering. -Gordon MacKenzie
Is there someone that you have wished to copy? Maybe you were envious of the way they dressed? Maybe they had a talent that you wished you were blessed with. God created just one of you; an original. Get to know yourself and your own gifts. Trust them and you will be amazed what you
can create.
The truly original artist creates invents his own signs.- Heni Matisse
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