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Lecture day, very interesting box concept. I have seen this before but never understood its usefulness. Interesting to know that Durer used it! I may have to get out shoe boxes to draw!

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Nice work Mirian, I like seeing your corrections and your set-up with the screen next your painting.

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Day 13 Daily timed session. Focusing on spheres. I’ve tried varying my speed, slower and faster. I find that if I really focus on gesture first, going even a little”wild” with my marks, trying to feel the figure with my pencil, I get better results than when I try to go slower and be careful.

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Hi Christopher, thanks for your comments, yes, I agree that we should have a goal, then if we stuck to the goal, no matter the results, it is a success. Your english is great!

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Day 12 focusing on spheres, so difficult  to concentrate on process only, not results. This is what Glenn suggests. 

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These hands are so delicate! Beautifully constructed and the paper you’ve chosen really brings out a certain feel, reminds me of Watteau or Fragonard.

I hope you feel better soon!

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Christopher, I think the fact that you are emphasizing process is most important.  We often tend to let ego take over when we’re too focused on results.

In another discipline ( golf for me) I had a mentor who always said Mastery = focused on process  Ego= focused on results, and we can’t control outcome! So we get Mastery in a discipline when we just do the work, do the process and have patience, and from time to time, we get results!😂

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Day 11. I did a few minutes of the Daily Drawing session before I left this morning at 6am. I knew I wouldn’t have the energy when I came home tonight.

1 and 2 mn poses

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Deborah, thanks very much for your positive comments, I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts. It’s so very useful to have others’ input!

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Day 10 Just plugging away. I didn’t have a lot of steam today but I want to keep the momentum, not miss a day 

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Thanks Gordon for your encouragement!

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Hi Nick, congratulations on doing a second hundred day challenge! Flipping through your work, you’re making a lot of progress. I like the simplicity of your designs. You capture the movement of the figures. Look forward to seeing more.

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Excellent work Deborah and very interesting discussion here. I especially like hearing your thoughts on classical music and precision, the necessity of following the composers intentions. I think it’s necessary in classical drawing in the beginning too. It’s just that artists need to free themselves up once they’ve learned. I think it was John Carlson who said something like” you can’t paint what you don’t know”

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Day 9 continuing with the Vilppu’s lessons. 

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Day 8

 

So I decided to move on to the next lesson in Vilppu’s figure drawing, spherical forms. This is great fun drawing all those circles! I got a new (another!!) sketchbook A3 size so I can draw larger while doing the lessons. Also, I have taken an idea to draw in the sketchbook while writing course notes from @deborahharback thanks!

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