Learning From Others

So you don’t get lost

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I’ve been reflecting on So you don’t get lost in the neighborhood, a novel by French author Patrick Modiano. What seemed a quiet tale is revealed as a gripping mystery.

This mystery unfolds at a languid pace. A lost address book is found. The finder would like to return it in person. Oh, and he has questions about one of the entries.  Lies are uncovered and memories restored. Jean Daragane is disturbed and removed from his life of total solitude in his Paris apartment. He searches out people from his past. It ends in a place that puts the reader on a cliff of unknowns.

So you don't get lost in the neighborhood
So you don’t get lost in the neighborhood

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Step by Step

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This is a stake in the groud. These clumsy sketches provide my baseline for measuring progress. They are an exercise from Andrew Loomis’ book Fun with a Pencil. Yes, I’m learning to draw. Again.

Frist drawings, from "Fun with a Pencil"
Starting somewhere. There will be lots of work ahead. It will be be made of a series of lots of small steps.

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Daily Doing

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Carlos Villa gave some introductory remarks to students in his Beginning Drawing class at the San Francisco Art Institure. They finished with these.

“I’ve been asked if this class will have a requirement that you draw everyday. No, you are not required to draw everyday.”

Collective sighs and murmers of relief emerged from the students.

“But you should want to,” he concluded with a smile.