Did you know you are an Artist?

There, I said it. You. Wherever you are reading this, whoever you are, no matter your experience or if you have literally never done anything “creative” in your life…you are in fact an Artist.

When I first started painting in April 2021 I had very limited knowledge of what I was doing. There was so much doubt. Daily thoughts of “I haven’t taken an art class in forever”…therefore I am not an artist. See there in is the problem our societal systems have placed onto us.

We are trained to think that only people who went to art school are artists. That being an artist has a direct correlation with an art degree. Hence whenever we pick up a brush or a marker we immediately think “well I am not an artist so this is not going to go well”.

But art is so much bigger than the classic form of painting or drawing. Have you ever cooked a meal? Have you ever made a decision about decorating your space? Or how about this…have you EVER DOODLED in your life? If the answer is No to that last one, stop reading this and please go doodle.

I bring these questions up becuase so many of our daily decisions are an art-form. Our day is full of intentional decisions that have a creative element to it. Therefore, you do not need an art class to check off an “I am an artist” checkbox.

I feel that this stigma is one of the driving forces for me to share my inspiration of creativity with others.

I started off thinking that “I am not an artist” to truly believing in my soul that we have been artists the entire time!