twiggyabi

...mostly...

I am currently participating in an art class where the teacher is not exactly "open minded" to different styles of art (i.e. mine...). She is very much a paint it as you see it kind of artist (though not solely without imagination). I deign to learn as much as possible from her as from my previous art teachers, but also like the things I gleaned from other teachers, I want to learn the best of what they have to teach without losing my own personal impressions and ideas. Wondered what all of you think/thought about the art/photography classes/workshops/lessons you have participated in or are currently taking.

I think it's pretty safe to assume that for most of us, at some point in our childhood we had such a good time doing something (however mundane) that for the rest of our childhood and maybe the rest of our lives we are trying to recreate a part of that good/fun/exciting feeling we had while doing that certain activity... Mine probably doesn't look like much to most people. I just remember one day my brother and I decided to "do nothing"... which basically involved us talking (probably about the condition of our tree forts, or our next lego project, etc...) and walking around the poking things with sticks. We certainly were not deprived chil