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Maine: A View from Above
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Charles Feil2 ratings, 3.50 average rating, 0 reviews
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“In a still-life drawing class during my first year at the Portland School of Art (now the Maine College of Art), I was presented for the first time with an idea that struck me as being at once wildly revolutionary and utterly self-evident.
The lesson was pretty simple: henceforth we were to spend 90 percent of our time studying the object to be drawn and 10 percent of our time actually drawing it. This was, of course, the precise opposite of our youthful tendency to labot mightily over a drawing while only occasionally glancing up at the actual still life we were attempting to portray.
Thus I was introduced to the fantastic notion that the more you look at something, the more you see. I had just been handed a key capable of unlocking countless doors.”
― Maine: A View from Above
The lesson was pretty simple: henceforth we were to spend 90 percent of our time studying the object to be drawn and 10 percent of our time actually drawing it. This was, of course, the precise opposite of our youthful tendency to labot mightily over a drawing while only occasionally glancing up at the actual still life we were attempting to portray.
Thus I was introduced to the fantastic notion that the more you look at something, the more you see. I had just been handed a key capable of unlocking countless doors.”
― Maine: A View from Above
