My Perspective
I
had Mr. Beckwith for Art in both the seventh and eighth grade. My memory fades in certain areas, but I can guarantee you one fact of life in his art classes. The first assignment, regardless of grade, we had each year was 'perspective'. "If you're gonna be an artist, you must tackle perspective", was something close to his mantra. He'd slide a piece of white drawing paper across our long tables and instruct us to draw a road, trailing off in the distance: telephone poles, trees, mailboxes and other crap. Large in the foreground, small in the distance. You know it was that activity showing height, width, depth and position front to rear. Bla, bla, bla... I always completed the assignment. Not well, but done. He was a teacher back then. Later, he actually became a friend. Elenka designed our wedding rings, and Gary made them for us out of our high school rings. Strange how some things in life turn.
As for my perspective, I guess I better find an artist to help me out.
Any ideas?
Sounds like a terrific teacher. We all need teachers and friends who have the perspective of living life artfully.
ReplyDeleteYou've got Elenka and that's all the perspective you need!
ReplyDeleteThank you
DeleteYes, I do remember something about perspective from my art classes. You show a good example of one point perspective, but you can also have two point, and three point perspective.
ReplyDeletei remember drawing roads too...into mountains...i like the idea of your wedding rings, that's really neat!
ReplyDeleteneat wedding ring idea!
ReplyDeleteSpare, eloquent!
ReplyDeleteAloha
I don't associate learning how to draw perspective with any particular teacher, but that is probably the failing of my memory. Cool idea about wedding rings. It has a bit of the hippie in it . . .
ReplyDeleteYou have your own in-house artist!
ReplyDeleteNice perspective in this shot.
ReplyDeleteBased on following your blog for the last couple of years I would say your perspective is spot on.
ReplyDeleteThat is one lesson I remember from a middle school art class: perspective. It fascinated me. You didn't like so much? Or did it become too repetitive?
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