{"id":53142,"date":"2018-08-08T15:28:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/08\/08\/drawn-to-success-how-to-bring-out-your-inner-artist\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:28:32","slug":"drawn-to-success-how-to-bring-out-your-inner-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=53142","title":{"rendered":"Drawn to success: how to bring out your inner artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone can learn to draw, and from the web-based Sketchbook Club to art-shop mini-classes and even videos from children\u2019s illustrator Nick Sharratt, there is plenty of help to get you startedMy great-aunt was an artist, and was fond of telling us that anyone can learn to draw. Not everyone is super-talented, she would hastily qualify \u2013 not everyone can be an artist. But given the right teaching, everyone can, at the very least, turn out a decent representation of a tree, or a flower, or a human being. It is like learning a language, she would say. You just have to put in a bit of work.The success of recent books such as Johanna Basford\u2019s Secret Garden colouring book and Emma Farrarons\u2019 The Mindfulness Colouring Book certainly suggests there are millions of us nurturing a creative side, often one frustrated by our everyday lives. But these bestsellers are marketed more as therapy than creativity \u2013 simple exercises like dot-to-dot or colouring-in that help calm the mind and relieve stress. They are, for many, a lovely way to pass the time, but unlikely to end up framed on your bedroom door. So what if you want to create something a little more, well, creative? Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/aug\/08\/drawn-to-success-how-to-bring-out-your-inner-artist\" target=\"_blank\">Drawn to success: how to bring out your inner artist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone can learn to draw, and from the web-based Sketchbook Club to art-shop mini-classes and even videos from children\u2019s illustrator Nick Sharratt, there is plenty of help to get you startedMy great-aunt was an artist, and was fond of telling us that anyone can learn to draw. Not everyone is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}