Since I took art classes back in my school days, I’ve always wanted to take more. Life didn’t allow that until now.
I still always think I have to take any kind of classes in person. Why the hell I don’t think about online classes is beyond me.
My friend Arthur who lives next door has many of the same wants on our still to do lists.
One day he shared he was taking art lessons on line. I was like…oohhhh.
I think he is most interested in painting where I wanted to learn to draw and sketch. Perhaps eventually learning to paint as well.
Arthur gave me the name of the online teacher he uses and I checked him out. Then I found another art teacher from Vancouver.
Michael Markowsky created lessons during the initial lockdown during the pandemic.
The lesson are free but you can send him small donations which I plan to do.
I like his way of teaching and noticed many of the same methods to his teaching as mine in teaching belly dancing.
He makes noises and sound effects when he is demonstrating drawing shapes. I think of music and our dance moves as shapes as well.
Bottom line, I get this guy. Today, I attempted my first perspective drawing.
I have already seen where I mistakes and I need to get a small ruler to make the perspective lines straight.
Am I happy with what I have learned in the first three weeks of lessons? Fuck yeah.
I am a right-sided thinker and found drawing shapes and shading difficult.
I have to pause the video and practice a few times that day and the next before proceeding with the lesson.
One day, after an hour and a half of a lesson, my brain hurt the way it used to when during standardized testing as a student.
We were encouraged to draw one or two rooms in our homes before starting the next lesson. Our bedroom is next.
I have not learned how to add small details and circles or ovals yet.
When I walk into rooms now, my eyes search for the perspective point in the room and can draw the room in my head.
That’s progress my friends I am super stoked about. Yay!
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday guys.