![]() I don’t have to get it right the first time? Okay. As an artist, I begin with the expectation of making mistakes.” My tools make up both a pencil AND eraser. I don’t need to get it perfect the first time. Look, I’m not drawing one line but seven or eight lines. I’m doing it lightly, and I’m not trying to get the perfect lines on the first try. We all wanted to dive in when he gave the instructions and draw our rectangle around the cat. Something inside me wanted to follow him, to see if I could keep up.įirst, he had us lightly draw a rectangle box around the cat. But I wasn’t going to quit and walk out of the class. Well, I had a hard time believing that it would be either fun OR possible. The teacher must have been reading my mind because he said “It’ll be fun. ‘How on earth am I going to draw a Siamese cat that was clearly drawn by a professional? Isn’t this the beginner’s class?’ I thought. I looked at my blank paper, having no idea how to draw at all, clueless of where to even start. And he said “We’re going to learn how to draw a Siamese cat tonight.” My stomach dropped. The teacher held up a drawing of a Siamese cat. I was so stressed when I walked into class, I felt like I would burst into tears if I had one more thing I needed to do. And I’m going to start a weekly drawing class in the midst of all this? That makes total sense! Crying off and on from exhaustion has been my most consistent activity. I’ve got posts to write for Babble, Mini Sessions to edit, and a presentation to give this weekend. Book Three’s copy-edit was due yesterday, I’m so far behind on emails I can’t even see the end. Pascaline has had the flu all week, Brian and Blaze came down with it yesterday. I head to Minneapolis tomorrow, and I haven’t had a chance to unpack my suitcase from NYC. It seemed insane to do with how crazy life has been. I started a beginning drawing class last night.
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