Adult art class in Cape Breton encourages creativity [Video]

A new art class in Cape Breton is helping beginners and self-taught artists tap into their creative side.

The eight-week course is being held in Coxheath, N.S., by instructor Nancy Chiasson, who says she first became interested in the arts when she was a child.

“My mother was a farmer from Grand Mira and they were constantly making things, so I grew up in a home where everything was homemade,” she says.

Chiasson is also involved with Visual Arts Nova Scotia and teaches in the Professional Artists In The Schools (PAINTS) program.

“In our adult program, we learned last week about single-point perspective and how (Vincent) Van Gogh used that in his drawings, and I showed a painting of a practice that I did on that, and it really helps open them up to seeing that their sketchbook is a place of exploration – it’s not a place of perfect art right away,” she says.

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