{"id":1816,"date":"2016-03-25T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/studio\/finding-your-inner-artist\/"},"modified":"2016-03-25T03:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T10:47:00","slug":"finding-your-inner-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanddesign.com\/newrochelle-ny\/finding-your-inner-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Your Inner Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walk into an elementary school classroom, and you&rsquo;ll see it.&nbsp; Amid the untied shoelaces, the reminder spelling words that adorn the walls, the near-constant requests for help and water and &ldquo;Ms. Cooper, look at this&rdquo; and snacks, you&rsquo;ll find a commonality.&nbsp; In every classroom, in every school, every student just happens to be an artist.&nbsp; And a pretty darn good one at that.&nbsp; Just ask them &ndash; they&rsquo;ll tell you.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s a truth as simple as their favorite flavor of gum or what color socks they&rsquo;re wearing.&nbsp; Now, walk into a bank or an office building or into a lunch-hour-packed downtown restaurant.&nbsp; Ask the folks there the same question &ndash; &ldquo;Are you an artist?&rdquo; and for the most part you&rsquo;ll get a chorus of emphatic negative responses amid nervous laughs, tie-tightening and hair-arranging.&nbsp; Why the change?&nbsp; Surely we haven&rsquo;t actually gotten worse at drawing or painting since our single-digit age.&nbsp; So what gives?&nbsp; What makes our adult selves so wary about doing the very thing that made our 4th grade selves confident and happy?&nbsp; What we&rsquo;ve found at our studios, is that in order to find your inner artist again, you sometimes need some PRACTICE.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Practice non-comparison.&nbsp; Pablo Picasso once said that the chief enemy of creativity is good sense.&nbsp; So what if your brother is a &ldquo;real&rdquo; artist, or your mom once made a living playing the piano?&nbsp; Don&rsquo;t let another&rsquo;s success bind and gag your own endeavors.&nbsp; Your art is your own, and the act of you creating it is what matters.<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Practice self-validation.&nbsp; Internally praising your own works is not being conceited.&nbsp; Not only does positive self-talk do wonders for our psyche, but it can make us more receptive to the kind words of others as well.&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Yes . . . practice art.&nbsp; Like, now.&nbsp; You don&rsquo;t need to wait until you have more room in your home.&nbsp; Or until you have entire stretches of unobstructed Saturdays.&nbsp; Or until you retire.&nbsp; Art can happen anytime, anywhere.&nbsp; Scoot in for an extra session at Wine and Design here and there, take a class at a recreation center, or just create at home.&nbsp; As Dee Hock put it, &ldquo;Clean out a corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.&rdquo;<br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Practice something new.&nbsp; You took a drawing class in high school, but that doesn&rsquo;t mean that you have to be tied down to pencils and sketch pads for your creative outlet.&nbsp; We think that painting is a great way to reconnect with art &ndash; it&rsquo;s fun, it&rsquo;s surprisingly forgiving, and you get to take home beautiful proof of your artistic endeavor.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At Wine and Design we love to see people of all ages become reconnected with the art they can make &ndash; to grow in love with creating again.&nbsp; Every day we get to show up for work, line the easels with fresh canvases, and watch as art brings the light of laughter, discovery, newly-found self-confidence back in to people&rsquo;s lives.&nbsp; Sound too dreamy to be true?&nbsp; You, too, can be a part of &ldquo;uncorking&rdquo; the inner artist in others by starting your very own Wine and Design franchise.&nbsp; Next time you&rsquo;re in the studio, we&rsquo;d love to talk to you more about this.&nbsp; For us, it has made what we do for a living into a career worth loving.&nbsp; We look forward to seeing you, AND your inner artist, very soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walk into an elementary school classroom, and you&rsquo;ll see it.&nbsp; 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