First of all, I want to welcome you again, to OurCoolVillage.com I am so excited that were are finally at this part of the journey. Still it is an ongoing process and there is much to do.

"Art is anything you can get away with." Kahlil Gibran

That being said, anyone can do some form of art or craft. Many people think they have no gift or talent to do any form of art or craft. We are all creative beings and have the capacity to learn. So with the desire and imagination you can learn any craft or artform you want. The next important part is practice, all the great Masters had hundreds and thousands of examples of their art or craft. They worked hard at it, It was their way of life.

Art is a major component of Design. Design is Communication. Graphic Design is primarily Visual Communication and goes back thousands of years to petroglyphs and pictographs on the rocks is very little in our world that I can think of that isn't formed by some type of design or visual or auditory communication.

Art is good therapy. It takes you away from the mundane daily rituals of life and gives you the opportunity to explore other possibilities. There is no greater fredom than this. It puts in in touch with a higher part of yourself that is free from programming. So begins our journey of OurCoolVillage.com.