I always felt a need to join in but was laughed at by my art teacher at school. Truly couldn’t draw a straight line, but how many straight lines are there in a picture?
Then, when living in Spain, an old Spanish man had such faith in me that I painted a romantic couple against balustrades in oils. He asked me how I planned to draw the balustrades as a total beginner and I said I just felt the desire and when I got stuck he would help me. He didn’t speak any English and my Spanish is only acceptable but he was the best teacher ever starting with me drawing an aubergine. Lots of rubbing out but then a perfect aubergine. I just started an online botanical art class and so wish he was beside me, but the basics he taught me are still there.