Artistry

I've been trying to get creative. I'm finding that teaching school gets me into a power-point creation cycle, and not much else. The two main styles that I"m working on are simple pencil sketching and cut paper art.
Keep in mind that my first "C" ever was in art, so it's not coming easy. I'm finding that it is very difficult to draw accurtely. I'm following the advice of my art teacher friend and I'm drawing what I see, not what I think I see, and that's been working okay. I've got some sketches of hands that aren't too bad. But it is clear it is going to take a long time to get good at it.
The other style of art that I'm attempting is cut paper art. This is where you cut geometric desgns and scenes out of contruction paper and layer them. I'm a little bit better at this becasue it is so diberate a process. I'm not doing alot of designs that require a ton of detail yet, so it is hard to mess up. It is really thearputic to simply worry about cutting out a piece of paper right, instead of the rest of the world that assails me.
I'm goign with a car pool to Chicago, for "Camp Hope" a Peace and Justice/Obama forum. Wish me luck!