What is the most interesting thing you have learned this week?

[F]

To me one of the most wonderful things about learning something new is that the whole is so much greater than the sum of the parts. With each new thing we learn, we also get the benefit of the interconnections between our new knowledge, skill, or understanding and all the other things we have encountered and absorbed over our lifetimes.

 

So what new things did you learn,observe, or realize this week that change how you look at the world or that give you ideas for new creative possibilities? Where did you find it- a book, online, your neighborhood, a change of scene, something that popped into your head as if you had always known it somewhere inside you but it just made itself felt?

 

Please share!

[Laura E. Thykeson]

You, my dear , could have been me many years ago...I feel exactly the same way, and have even given kids art lessons for free, just to give them the opportunity to experience something that could actually touch their souls...my parents were too poor for art lessons, but the lady across the street was a retired art teacher from school...I had no supplies except for some chalks she had given me, a couple of pencils and erasers and some charcoal twigs from a brush pile my dad had burned while clearing land on our farm. I still, 40 years later, have some of those same twigs...I may never be famous, but no one can ever say I didn't care and wasn't determined to learn art...now I create and design freelance every day...so you just keep it up-you are going in the right direction and more importantly, for the right reasons!

[Trina Adermonn]

Thank you Laura! Your encouragement meant oodles to me today!

[Laura E. Thykeson]

Good, and you are very welcome, my dear!

[Caroline Alexander]

Interesting and very challenging: the first weeks class in the Strathmore workshop on Force. I sort of "get it" until faced with a photo of someone doing something, then it gets very hard, probably because photos record a few seconds after an event, unless they are posed, and I am looking for the event itself. For anyone who wants to be similarly challenged, the workshop is here:

3rd Strathmore Workshop

but you do need to join to see it.

Its definitely a different approach to figure drawing!

[di]

Caroline.......which workshop are you doing?  the link wouldn't let me in.........

[di]

Caroline..........here is an excellent drawing resource.......drawing video.........it also has a section for animals.........and dogs!  no piggies!!!!

[Caroline Alexander]

Di, Its Mike that is giving the Strathmore course, and exercising our brains. To get in and see whats going on, you actually have to sign up on the main page, which is free, then join the group. Lesson one was Traci Bautista, Workshop 2 was Cathy Johnson, and Mike Mattesi has just started workshop 3. The course is only 4 weeks, just a taster, but there is a video, and notes. We were a bit spoiled with Cathy who was very thorough. Mike is forcing us to think for ourselves about movement. I'd roughed out a soccer player from a photo in the local paper to see if I could work out what was happening in it, and I think I have it. Now to do some real life examples.

All videos and notes are online until August the 1st. Cathy told us that next year she would post her videos on Youtube so Strathmore must have rights for 12 months. Her videos are well worth watching, there was so much in her class!

[Trina Adermonn]

Traci's webinar was awesome. Can you send me the link Caroline?

[Atlantic Flower]

Hi all quilters! just home from a late evening visit to Annapolis Library - a quilter there told me of a recent visit by Anne Hill from Scotland to the local quilter's guild ... she is seeking quilts enough to cover a soccer field - famous stadium - next year (2013) in aid of Alzheimer's care and research ..

http://www.annhillquilter.co.uk/alzheimer-quilt-project.html

if you are interested!!!!

[di]

AF........wow.....this sounds like a wonderful project!             Are you gonna participate?

[Trina Adermonn]

Sounds like an awesome project. I've seen just in my own community the number of people affected with alzheimers grow in the last five to ten years. It's horrible what it does to people. What a nice idea to bring awareness and aid to this terrible diagnosis.