Teaching is the most creative occupation

I had the most inspiring class with Maureen Innes yesterday, not really wanting to go in the first place in fear I would yet again have to display my terrible lack of drawing talent, I came out proud as a peacock after, through one of Maureen's great exercises, I created this charcoal drawing.

 We were each given a black and white photocopied portrait, placed upside down in front of us. Asked not to look at the features but only at the lines, we chose either pencil or charcoal and worked from the bottom of the page up. As soon as we started thinking about drawing the person and not the lines, we were to stop working on that bit and pick some lines somewhere else. It is called Drawing with the right side of the brain, one line at a time.

The most important lesson I got from Maureen was to find my creative self and be creative with my students!