Our writing word today is “draw.” Again a word with so many meanings. All my life I have wanted to draw real-life pictures. I particularly like pencil drawings with shading. I like the fact that you can create 3-dimensional pictures on a flat piece of paper.
I admire people who can sit outside and draw the landscape or sketch people as they sit on a park bench. I marvel at their talent. I am so envious. Yes, I do work at getting closer to my goal of being a better artist. I have taken courses and I make time, occasionally to draw.
However, I am not driven. I don’t carry a sketch book with me all the time. In quiet times, when an artist would draw, I read or do needlework. Drawing for me is not relaxing. I have to concentrate, focus, and erase too often, to consider it restful.
Maybe that is what separates an artist from a “wanna-be” artist. Drawing for an artist is an escape. It’s their restorative time. Drawing is their raison d’être. They live through their Art. Whereas, I live through a list of various activities – gardening, family, knitting, needlework, reading, writing, cooking and even cleaning.
In the luck of the “draw,” I did not come up with a pencil. I drew a needle or maybe several different kinds of needles…and a lens. I forgot to mention photography.
Have a creative day!