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The picture shows our time of mentoring the students of Clarksville, TX (http://artistinresidenceredrivercounty.blogspot.com/p/about-clarksville-red-river-county.html ) More pics and stories to come, I promise.
The most important lesson I'm learning right now in my painting and my studies is that there is no short-cut to genius. Greatness requires work and more work!
Coincidentally, that is the subject of the current Twice Weekly Letter from Robert Genn and the Painter's Keys! Take a look:
There's a great story in David Bayles and Ted Orland's Art and Fear. Here it is:
"The ceramics teacher announced on opening
day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side
of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of the
work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His
procedure was simple: On the final day of class he would bring in his bathroom
scales and weigh the work in the "quantity" group: fifty pounds of pots rated an
"A", forty pounds a "B" and so on. Those being graded on "quality," however,
needed to produce only one pot--albeit a perfect one--to get an "A". Well, came
grading time and a curious fact emerged: the works of the highest quality were
all produced by the group being graded for quantity. It seems that while the
"quantity" group was busy turning out piles of work--and learning from their
mistakes--the "quality" group had sat theorizing about perfection, and in the
end had little more to show for their efforts than grandiose theories and a pile
of dead clay."
So, perfectionists take heed! Inspiration comes to the one who is already at the drawing board, not the poor sap who is just waiting for inspiration.
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I'll be back soon for more pics and stories, as I said~ Thanks for stopping by!
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