Everybody’s an artist.
That’s the point of Art Break Day, an international event that got started a few years ago not so far from home.
A couple of Corvallis, Ore., artists launched the creative holiday on the first Friday in September 2011; this year, according to its Facebook page, there were 39 official locations in six countries where anybody could stop by to have free fun with crayons or paints, pens or pencils, scissors and stamps. Inhibitions were checked at the door.
Downtown gallery Art on the Boulevard and volunteer Deb Veach-White hosted Art Break Day in the adjoining Vancouver Marketplace courtyard for the second year in a row on Friday — qualifying it as an annual Vancouver tradition.