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| Martha's first painting. And for those who know us too well, let me say up front that that's not a whisky bottle. |
You may remember my friend Amy telling me last summer that
she couldn’t draw a straight line, and me challenging
her to let me teach
her. Her sister Martha was in town this week, and she asked me if she could
come to my painting class on Saturday.
Like Amy, Martha has a doctorate from a prestigious American
university. She also recently went back and got an MS in landmark preservation
from an art school. However, the last time Martha actually took a hands-on art
class was when she was a freshman at Brighton High School. (By my calculations,
that must have been at least twenty years ago.)
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| Her sketch for the same. |
Here is her drawing, and here is her painting—both done in a single three-hour class.
“This is some kind of parlor trick,” my daughter Laura told
me afterward. “You take people who ‘can’t do art’ and in three hours prove to
them that they can.”
Well, duh, honey. Most people believe the lie that art is magic,
rather than craft. And the methodology for teaching
drawing and painting has become impossibly corrupted in modern America (with a few notable exceptions).
If you’re interested, there is more information on my fall
classes here.
Message me if you want information about next
year’s workshops.
4 comments:
I so wish you could teach me!
There is such liberation in the power to create. Unfortunately much has been lost in our consumer culture where we let loose our voyeurism and watch or purchase others work.
Keep opening up the magic of art making for all. We'll be a richer and more liberated society.
I'm still drawing! Often, if not daily! It's been a a joy and release; makes me feel at peace. And I owe it all to you, my dear friend.
-Amy
The bottle does look a little more Glenfiddich-y iin the painting than in the drawing, truth be told/ Wishful thinking?
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