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Have a look at Alisa Burke's sketchbook.
The color. The contrast. The few, but cogent, words.
EXACTLY what I wish I could do.
I am, by the way, continuing to draw. On the 2nd, I drew an Excedrin bottle (highly valued when you need, it, no?), but boring to draw. Yesterday, I drew my reading glasses (again, when you need 'em, you *need* 'em). They were interesting to draw because they were very hard to draw. The foreshortening! Ai yi yi! I tried over and over and had no success. I will keep working on them!
I'll show you, one of these days.....
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You may find those things boring to draw, but I'd never find them boring to look at... simply because I couldn't draw them in a bazillion years.
Can one draw a stick figure bottle of Excedrin? ;)
Yes. :-) You'll see when I post my efforts..... :-)
And if one does so, over and over, one learns to draw it better..... :-)
I accept that I'm never going to draw things the way France does.
But I can draw better than I do now.
If I practice.
:-)
Once upon a time I knew someone who was going to write The Great American Novel (and/or Screenplay) ... Any Minute Now.
Except that ... every time he even comtemplated picking up a pencil, he started comparing himself to Proust. So he was paralyzed.
And never wrote anything.
He never turned into a better and better Charlie because he feared he'd never be Marcel.
I am trying to learn a lesson from a bad example, and am not thinking about France (or any other person who can do astonishingly realistic drawings). :-)
I just know I'll get better at things I practice.
:-)
I was thinking about this, as I walked from the library to work this morning.
Of course -- time is limited. There isn't time to get more involved in everything that catches my interest.
I would love to know how to play the piano. I have no interest in *learning* how to play the piano. :-)
Given infinite time, I might change my mind about that, but it's just not a higher priority for me than ... drawing better.
The thing that I think is so sad and so frustrating is when people sabotage themselves about something they really *would* like to do, before they give it the old college try.
It's true that no one but Ansel Adams is going to be Ansel Adams.
But the rest of us have something to say, too. If we never take pics because we're not Ansel, the world will never hear our voices.
And ... if we never "speak up" (whatever that may mean, in whatever artistic context) -- who knows, maybe we might have been right up there with Ansel, but because we stifled ourselves, we never began to get there......
I learned a lot from watching my kid learn to walk and talk. Both of those things are HARD to learn. But babies keep on trying....
As adults, I think we become so used to being able to do things, that we forget that valuable things can be hard to master. Very hard. They can require trying and trying and trying. Getting back up after we fall down, and trying again.....
If we tell ourselves "I am no good at" something we really would like to do, we are depriving ourselves of something we might derive a lot of satisfaction from doing..........
I used to belong to the local fiberarts guild.
One time people were talking about how to find information about an upcoming event. One of the older members said the info was published in a magazine. Someone else said it was available online.
The older and very wise woman said "That is a skill I have not yet mastered."
I was struck by her response and by the self-image it reflected!
What a great role model.
I should drop her a note....................
:-)
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