Whose claim

Dido stole a flute as a kid. Herzog stole a camera as a young man. A grown up version of a ritual.

More drawing lessons

Beginning this book with some 'before'sketches, what was to be a sketch of my grandmother turned out to be a young woman of a different race. If this were some shamanistic drawing, it would send me on a distant voyage to find my ancestors. when I drew a self portrait, my roomate thought I drew a hag. next time I am going to draw a distorted me to get it right. Some exercises in the drawing book seemed easy. Filling one side of the vases (which also form the face contours) looking at the other. I was using my left brain which I should not have for the purpose of letting the right brain kicked in. Recognising Einstein's from an upside down picture. Now that deserves a pat. The most interesting exercise of this book was drawing pictures upside down. That is a surprise. Another interesting one was drawing negative spaces. I now have a picture which looks like the opened mouth of an animal seized in time whose dentition should baffle any zoologist.

Stoke the Line

While looking at
Old Tree and Horses in The Art of Book of Chinese Paintings, I recognised the horse. Well, I have drawn some of them which resemble cattle and beasts of burden. Ming Deng, the author of the book thinks its 'Zhao Mengfu's confidence in his painting skills shows in his willingness to use very simple lines to depict horses at difficult angles.'
These horses are from a picture in Rita Mae Brown's 'Animal Magnetism' book.