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My mother tried her hand at some oil paintings and was
constantly dabbling in different crafts. All of her boys seemed
to have been born with a flair for art. Paul drew quite well and
every year got paid for painting Christmas deorations on
people's windows. To this day Daniel is still winning first
places at model airplane meets for his fine craftsmanship,
designs, and paint work. In grade school my artwork was in the
top ten percent of my class, but my gift got lost in the
shuffle as I moved on to high school. I had no art classes there
and I got heavily
involved with things like sports and chess, while also helping
my dad out quite a bit with his bicycle shop and his garden.
While at university I splashed briefly back into art taking a "Beginning
Drawing" class worth one credit (held once a week for 10 weeks
at a local community college.) The next quarter I followed suite
with a water color class. So I doodled for a total of about 20
hours in class but never did any drawing or painting
again until last month when I drew the cartoons for my music video "Clock Me
Out" (click here) The potrait above
was sketched during my Begining Drawing class. I didn't draw it
free hand, that is, without something to look at, but the
original was in color and was done so professionally that it
looked more like a photograph. |
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