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take a watercolor painting class (read all 2 entries…)
Beginning Drawing started tonight... 3 years ago

After introductions, the teacher instructed us to set up easels and sketch a still life of a paper lunch bag using different types of charcoal media, concentrating specifically on light and shadow. Afterwards, we critiqued each other’s work and received feedback from the teacher as well (mine certainly wasn’t the best, but far from the worst). I’m holding onto my Paper Lunch Bag masterpiece (even though it kinda sucks), just in case I do become famous one day. Then my young mistress can sell it for millions long after I’m dead and buried…

Jul 13, 2005, 09:12PM PDT | 3 cheers


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Deni H

Art is wonderful!

I´m glad you´re doing this. I took three years of art in HS and a course or two in college. In the first year of art, the first 6 weeks of class we did nothing but draw our own hand. For the first month we had to draw it without looking at the paper, too. I think it´s a great exercise if you´re wanting to practice, and it develops your observational skills, too.

I hope that you do become a famous artist! If you can, you´ll have to post a few of your best pieces when the class is over.

Jul 14, 2005, 07:00AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Chicago Outfit

Thanks for the encouragement...

I’m really glad I’m taking the class too! It’s something I should have done a long time ago, as I have always had a creative streak. Unfortunately, I eschewed my artistic impulses early on as I allowed the phrase, starving artist, to become embedded in my brain. So now that I’m stuck with a soul-sucking job instead of a soul-nurturing passion, I’m trying to get back on track. (and it doesn’t hurt that I’ve already met a really cute girl in my class) The above painting is my all-time favorite; I’m lucky enough to have it in my own backyard at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jul 14, 2005, 03:41PM PDT | Respond to this


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