Lessons from #Life Drawing #3

More lessons from life drawing! I began dreading class two days before it was scheduled. In spare moments, I'd think of excuses: “I could be sick. I do feel kind of headachey. I could plead a dentist appointment, maybe even try to get one,  because that tooth really...

Lessons from #Life Drawing 2

It’s lessons from life drawing class again. Three hours in the middle of a Thursday when I check out of “normal” life and enter a secret, sunlit world in the jungle in Haiku, Maui, and study, and attempt to draw, naked people. The location is convoluted to get to, so...

Lessons from #Life Drawing

I’ve paid good money to look at a naked woman, and all I can think is that I should have worn orthopedic shoes. I hold my pencil in the awkward grip of someone who hasn’t come to the page in years as I gaze at the model on the stage. My lower back aches from standing...

Creativity: essay #1

What is the creative process? Different for everyone, sure. For me, it’s connected to daydreaming, filling the “creative well” with sensory, auditory and visual experiences, and then making and doing stuff intuitively. Mulling, wandering, chewing a bit of...

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