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What Do You See?

4/26/2010

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Over the past four years I have taken many art classes with lots of different teachers.  I love to draw and paint but truthfully this is not one of the areas that I have the most talent but for me it doesn't matter.  I just love doing it.  I had a really talented teacher once who I could tell was becoming a little frustrated with me because I wasn't progressing as fast as some of the other students.  One day she told me, "Just draw what you see!"  And that is when it hit me.  I was!  I just wasn't seeing the flowers or the trees or the people in the same way she was seeing them.  And having been a teacher myself who believed that all students were different and deserved to be taught in different ways I was Ok with the fact that I saw things slightly differently than everyone else in the class.  And with that knowledge came such a sense of relief.  My paintings didn't have to look perfect.  The buildings could lean a little to the left if that is what I saw.  I could change the colors to suit me not paint only what the color wheel said was complimentary.  So now I do draw and paint what I see and I couldn't be having more fun.  What do you see?
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Lis link
4/26/2010 12:03:30 am

How wonderful to find this today ... i have been reconnecting with my love of painting even though technically, I am not all that studied or trained. when i let go of worrying about making something someone else may understand and just paint for myself, oh my - what joy! I realize i paint not what i see, but what i remember.

Thank you for sharing this!

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Gina link
4/27/2010 01:45:10 am

There's an AHA moment. It's seeing the world through someone else's perspective that excites me. When are you going to share your art?

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Cindy link
4/27/2010 10:38:27 pm

As Ginny wishes for herself, I wish for her also!!!

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Kate Robertson link
4/28/2010 03:50:09 am

As Ginny wishes for herself, I wish for her also!!! Lets all go create today.

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Sarah link
4/28/2010 04:53:16 am

As Ginny wishes for herself, I wish for her also!
Whoot ...Let Fly with the photography! I am kinda new at it myself! I bought a Canon Rebel in February and am trying to learn all the bells and dingers too!! We should talk LOL!
Namaste, Sarah

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Silky Hart link
4/28/2010 05:17:05 am

As Ginny wishes for herself, so I wish for her also!

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Ana Goncalves link
4/30/2010 08:23:05 am

It's wonderful that you recognised so. That is the beauty of true expression, creating what we do see. :)

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