Ah, Monday after a holiday break! Can you feel the boundless enthusiasm?
Well, it will be good to get back into the routine of things, I suppose.
I will be going into work later today, and right now, I was planning to watch some more video of my final module for the gardening course I've been doing this semester. The course has been useful and educational, and one of the main things I learned is that one cannot get very in depth on these topics in a one-semester course.
Aha, maybe that's how they getcha? Scratch the surface on a variety of topics that serve to suck us down a deep, expensive, and time consuming rabbit hole!
It's all interesting, naturally, and I realized that I'm going to miss "tuning in" to these courses now that they're coming to a close. Would I like to take more courses? Yes. Do I want to pay for more courses? Eh...
Live models would come and sit while we students would draw. Traditional life drawing classes have
nude models, but thank gawd this class did not. Neither my small town nor we immature students would've handled that very well.
Things I learned from that class have mostly stuck with me over the many years, and every now and then I like to draw a (fully clothed) random person.
So I did this pencil drawing while learning about nasty plant diseases today.
Maybe someday I'll be able to successfully grow a decent plant.
2 comments:
I learned more from life drawing class than any other, nude did not mean discomfort it meant anatomy. We studied anatomy. It was very difficult. Later i posed for an artist and he did amazing work. Artists are a different breed.
Linda Sue, I was 18 or 19 and living in a small gossipy town when I took the class. Our instructor was an accomplished artist, but I think he considered the "limitations" and went with clothed models. I was surprised at how much there was to know/ learn.
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