“So, when were you done learning how to draw....?”

“So when were you done learning how to draw”?

That question once asked me a little boy during my Art sessions back in Germany some 17 years ago. ....Well as you guessed right I told him that you are never done learning. At that moment I just meant to give him a good honest grown up answer and I thought that I taught him something valuable!

What I did not realize though, was that that is the main thing that drives me, and not just as an artist! For me, learning about drawing is a life lesson, not settling for something that looks ok, but instead putting all of yourself into that moment of creating. It could end up in a pile of a couple of sketches or one painting, in which you work through problems and not settle for anything, but to get it right!

I wonder what the little boy, now in his twenties, does. Did it have an impact on him, I am sure of some sort. I wish I could talk to him now and tell him that the exciting world of learning and asking questions should never end because that is why I get up in the morning and try to get better in whatever I do!