I have never considered myself to be artistic. Every time I try to sketch anything, it looks nothing like the intended subject. I tend to be drawn more toward realistic art and less toward abstract, therefore, anything I tried to draw would need to at least slightly resemble the subject.
The only success I can remember, albeit marginal, was as a teenager sitting in the car at Mount Hood I'm trying to sketch the mountain. That effort was marginally successful but not enough to share with anyone. I gave up on trying to sketch and tried a few abstract things but as I said, I don't really appreciate abstract, so no matter what I did in that genre would have been unsatisfactory to me.
For most of my life I have said that I don't have an artistic bone in my body. I truly believe that. In fact I really didn't see things the same way that my artistic daughters see things. When I look at a tree I see a tree. When my daughter sees a tree she sees the various colors and shapes and light reflection and all of the other things that make up the tree. My niece and nephew are amazing photographers and I can see in their photography that they have seen things that were completely invisible to me. This further validated my opinion that my brain was simply wired completely differently.
I should adhere that while in college 18 years ago, I did take a drawing class. I was completely unimpressed by by my lack of talent. I did play with charcoal sketching for a few months and it did enjoy it. I managed to create two or three pieces that I felt were marginally good. I'm not sure why I didn't continue but it was likely because I still felt that I had no Talent.
On my daughter's birthday in April of this last year we decided to have a simple at home painting party with just my two daughters and I. We did a simple one hour painting project and though I felt my painting was was only marginally successful I was immediately bit by the bug. Within the next week or so I went out and bought canvas paper, paints, and brushes. I also signed up for a free painting class to be held a couple weeks later.
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