Every day you seem to read somewhere about exercising, swimming riding your bike, join a gym maybe walking the dog and generally being active if you want to stay in shape and keep yourself fit, this is all good advice. And if you do these things regularly you’ll be fairly comfortable and feel good afterwards, but lay off for any length of time and its hard work to get back into shape, puffing and muscle cramps your reward, ‘’maybe I will leave it today have another cup of coffee’’ anyway what’s all this go to do with my art? You may say. The pencil aerobics. Let your fingers do the walking and talking.
Well just like your body your fingers, hands and art brain need regular exercise if you’re ever going to improve, your weekly art class where the tutor makes most of the decisions for you will not do, and will always be just that, a shared piece of artwork partly your input and partly your tutors,
