I work at the library. Along with that job is a perk called: "I-get-to-see-a-lot-of-books-before-other-people-have-a-chance-to-check them out!" It's not often that I check out a book that I love enough to actually BUY but I will definitely buy this one. I have read (and will continue to read) a book called The Creative License- Giving Yourself Permission to be the Artist You Truly Are by Danny Gregory.
The point of the book is to persuade the reader to become the artist we all are and can be. Danny Gregory has filled the book with very fun illustrations that just inspire me to draw more and gives me the confidence to do... art.
I especially liked this story he writes about in the book-
" When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college- that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous and said, 'You mean they forget?'"
-Howard Iremoto
I love the idea that we were all artists at one time in our lives but most of us digress to become business men or accountants. Art is now looked at as "out there" or not worth the time to pursue. I wish that more of us could be like my six-year-old brother who loves to doodle, draw and think of his own stories. He intensely sits at our living room table for hours finishing his latest drawing of our family. If only we could keep the child-like artist in us.
This was done by my brother at age 4. It is a drawing of our family eating dinner from a bird's perspective. The rectangle is the table with round plates of food on it. The outer circles are our plates with broccoli on them. I think it is a very creative viewpoint and is awesome for someone his age to draw!
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