Falling Back in Love with Art featuring Artist Ashley Baldwin
When we are children, we express everything without censorship, we write out our own and others' imperfections and stories without a care in the world. We splat them across a page in a diary or draw and paint them on a canvas. Somewhere along the way, some of us lose that passion when we transition into adulthood. This occurred to me recently when I found myself picking up a pencil and drawing pad and sketching things out of the blue. This even surprised my husband as he turned to me and asked, "Since when do you draw?" I just looked at him with goofy smile and shrug. As a child, I never cared who liked my work, I just did it because it felt good, it was therapeutic. In this recent case, I believe it was after I went to my sister-in-law's Painting with a Twist birthday event that lit the spark I needed to find my inner artist once again. It was fun, it was helping me heal, and I didn't care who liked it. All I cared about was bringing out ...