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Old 03-07-2005, 04:38 PM   #6
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My question would be, Kimber, what's the specific goal of this particular lesson, other than to paint a pretty picture?
Hi John,

Thanks for taking the time to address my problem. What is the goal of the lesson? It's an independent study class. I choose the problems and work to find the solutions. With occassional guidance from the teacher. I believe the confict arises when the teacher must document some sort of progress and to her idea progess is in numbers and to me there are a number of problems in every painting.

What mark can she put in her book to indicate I have just discovered I can indicate the transparent glow of a whisp of hair with a glaze. Or, how I figured out how to make the dark side of the face look like it still exists in the darkness by using similar dark values of warm and cool color? (You see they don't teach you these things in class.) I'm still thinking about the window. I'm beating myself for not working out my composition better from the beginning How to fix it? I've decided to re-stretch, but I don't know how. Another problem in search of a solution. I'll do it later. My painting's ready to turn in now.

Here's something else I've just figured out, though. I am not going to try to paint any more finished paintings, (especially not 5' x 3'), for this class. I'm going to work on studies. I will break my problems down into small pieces so as to make it appear I'm doing more paintings. But, here's the problem with that... I don't know what my problems are until I stumble upon them in search of a picture. (I do have a mental list with which to keep myself occupied for the rest of the semester, though.)

And so, my college education continues... I'm paying a lot of money to figure out how to get a grade, not learn how to make pictures. I guess I can do that after I graduate.
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