Learn to Draw at Any Age

Margaret was a sixty-two-year-old retired nurse whose hands had threaded impossibly thin lines into the veins of premature infants for forty years. Yet when asked to draw a simple coffee mug, those same steady hands trembled, and she wept, convinced she lacked the gene for art. Her hands were never the problem. Her brain was lying to them. This is the talent myth, the belief that drawing is an i...