You have to have the talent and the skills to be able to express your visions. You also have to have a sense of pleasure in the creative process or else why would you stick with it. If you have the talent, you can acquire the skills IMO. Therefore I guess I am in the "it's the artist" camp. LOL pakled, got ya beat, first watercolour set at 5 (that's over 37 years ago).

Pass no temptation lightly by, for one never knows when it may pass again!