What's your favorite form of creative expression?

I found “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” (edwards) and “The Zen of Seeing” (franck) to be excellent starting points for improving my drawing results.

A artist friend gave a small class based on the first book which encouraged me further. I've also taken a sketching class and a color-mixing class. I'm mostly self taught.

As a child, I really liked working with coloured pencils and oil pastels.

As an adult, I started off in photography and really enjoyed the now ancient <grin> art  of non-digital photography. I drew enormous satisfaction from working with paper and chemical choices, darkroom methods, and well designed images that I captured on film to reproduce in black and white and sometimes color art pieces. 

As I re-opened and re-balanced chakras and improved my High Sense Perception / third-eye sight, I grew irritated that I couldn't capture what I was seeing and was “drawn” back into drawing and painting as a better means of expresssion. Alex Grey and I see very much the same things, only he's better at capturing it in great detail. I tend to try to give a sense of it rather than be quite as literal. I was very happy to find his work. It was great to see that someone else had also seen the same things and documented them. ( http://www.alexgrey.com/ )

Inspiration is always there for us. We just need to find the right headspace to connect with the Tao, the Flow, the all that is. Meditation and prayer are great for that.

I hope this helps.

Oh yeah, drawing is not hard. Turning off the inner critic is hard. Don't compare your work to anyone else's. You're here to do YOUR work, not theirs. Enjoy your creations, and share them with others who appreciate them.

Much wonderfulness,
Anne