Former art student reports progress...[long]

Cute.

Honey, in the arts 80 hours is only a 2 day week you still have 7 more days to go. So if you cant hack 80 you can t hack the arts because the demand is tripple and goes no for years non stop and no guarantees and no IPO.

Tell me about all the risk takes in tech.

In my opinion drawing is the key. I will add 'not life drawing , but drawing from the mind, and I will also add that it is a drawing that acts like a dream - you have only limited control over the forms - the ideas flow like the sequences in a dream, you don't know ahead of time what will happen next.

I sketch from feeling a minimum of twice daily, once in the morning and once in the evening. I am headed for my evening sketch as soon as I finish this.

The electronic medium is just another medium. I plan on getting a pressure sensitive electronic sketch pad at some point early in the new year.

have fun

Though I am sure there are dedicated teachers out there who are sincerely responding to their primary calling in life, my own experience with instructors at the college level was very much like your own: frustrated artists who went into teaching because they couldn't make it 'out there' and thus had an extremely negative outlook which they tried to impress upon the student.

Personally, I was very ambitious and optimistic and so they seemed to go out of their way to try to discourage me. Very weird scene.

I've heard similar stories from many artists.

Tim Folzenlogen

I am not sure, but last time I checked my watch, it had 24 hours in a cycle which I presume to be 1 day; then on my calendar it has only 7 days?

Confused Artist!!

Rob Davies

ICQ 10432219

'To converse is one strategy that separates us, from the apes.'

Having done my term and speaking from my own experiences, I would agree

There is a wealth of 'how to' stuff available over the web, and one of the best sites I've seen by someone who paints in a very traditional manner is at this web site. Click on 'art lessons'
http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/