I SAID I NEVER WENT TO ART SCHOOL

On Facebook I showed a painting I recently did in a previous Facebook post where I said I never went to art school. Upon thinking about that I thought, in fact, I did have some art training. My High School was broad enough to offer art classes and I took one. After high school I was heavily into photography and read all sorts of photography magazines. Somewhere, somehow, I took a photography class which allowed me the use of a fully equipped darkroom. I watch many painting shows on PBS which provide instruction.  And I did take that Bob Ross class I mentioned in a previous Facebook post.

For some reason I always liked to draw. I progressed in skill because I did reasonably well and no one in by family discouraged me. I don't know if this was a gift from God, or because anyone can do it if they practice enough. But we all must remember: no one person will be a copy of another, all have different motor skills and all see the world differently. Some may be like Picasso, some may be like Grandma Moses. But all are different, all are individual. No one else can be like you.

So, I did come to know different aspects of art which would have been taught at Art School like perspective and composition and selection of subject, if I had gone to Art School.