Batch 3: Free write

I am privileged to have a family who is very interested in Art.  My mother, when she was young, was an Art major, and grew up to draw and paint whenever she could.  She put my sister, my brother, and me in art classes since we were able to hold a crayon in our hands.   I am the youngest in my family, and my brother and sister were always very involved and talented in art.  I am also very privileged in the way the I have traveled a lot in my 29 years of life, and gotten to seen many famous and amazing pieces of art and architecture all over the world.  I do not think I could be as happy without art in my life.

I have always grown up appreciating art, but I have only grown to make my own art in the last couple of years.  I actually grew up to believe that I was the “oddball” or untalented one in my family.  My brother and sister are older and have always been tremendously good and talented in art, but neither of them was able to concentrate on their academics because of it.  I on the other hand was great at academics, and classes that were not art, so I made myself believe that I just wasn’t made to create art.  This I have come to realize is not true.  Once my sister and brother moved out, I gained the confidence to take studio art classes.  It turned out I happened to be better than I realized.  
  
My sister, now an interior designer, and my brother, an architect, never thought that they had such an impact on me, nor did I until I had to sit down and right this paper.  I always compared myself to them, which was unrealistic because I was a different learner than them, and talented in different ways.  Although I take art classes now, I do it for enjoyment rather than for a career: whereas my siblings have made art their careers. 

Even though I have the experience of living with an artist as a mother always support of me wanting to make art, it turned out my siblings had more of an impact on me.  And in the end I had to mature enough to get back into art and not feel inferior to others.  Everyone has different styles and no one can really say who’s better or who’s worse.