Yes, I was thinking that! Although specifically, with you, I want to do life-painting, not life-drawing - I have actually done quite a lot of the latter, and while I know it never stops being useful, I've never done live sketching with oils. I think it would be a valuable skill to learn, as well as being one step on the road to learning to paint portraits at a sitting (or several) rather than having to rely on photos :)

I'd say you don't have to be talented or Artistic to have fun messing around with paints, but I know that confidence is at least half the issue. I can't make art for shit either if I feel rubbish and don't believe I can do it.

On the other hand, acting and singing are designed to be done with other people around, and the buzz of collaborating on art projects is broadly similar to the buzz of doing thespy things with other people (although the thespy buzz has a more intense adrenaline spike, and the art buzz lasts as long as the pretty thing, to some extent). Do you do readthroughs/singthroughs much? If not, you really should :) Join readthroughers - it's new, but they're all lovely.