I love to teach folks who have never "done art" before.
Often
they have been making things their whole lives (meals, friends, schedules,
babies, messes) and were just unconscious of creating. Getting in touch
with one's own artistic sensibilities is tough, purely because it is conscious.
By the time we are adults, we've developed some sort of fear of expression
because we've become more conscious. It's why kids have fun making anything from
paper-plate masks to iced cookies. There is no self-consciousness, no
fear.
