Discover the artist in you
I discovered the artist in me many, many summers ago when I was home and bored like you all are right now. With the school closed and endless hours to waste, I wanted to do something different, something fun, satisfying and challenging.
Reading came naturally to me, like sleeping or eating, so it wasn’t really ‘doing something’. Remember those were ancient times when people read a lot in the absence of smartphones, Ipads and wifi connectivity.
I wanted to do something after which I would get a sense of accomplishment and I could tell myself: “Hey! I did this today.” Or “I learnt something new.”
And as luck would have it, one evening I went to a hotel for a wedding and, with my cousins, I was roaming around in the lobby when on one side we saw a number of paintings and a few people standing there too. Curious, we went there and pretended to admire the paintings on exhibition. The artist was also there talking to a youth. We also moved closer and listened to the conversation as the artist had smiled and nodded to us on seeing our interest.
What the artist, whose name we didn’t bother to find out, said to the young man was something that caught my attention. He was giving tips to him on getting started with art on his own.