On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:23 PM, William Conger wrote:
When I was six years old and already determined to be an artist I learned much by copying Donald Duck's beak and that prepared me to easily absorb the lessons of foreshortening and perspective. Go look at Donald's weirdly twisted beak as if you were six years old. Very subtle convolutions, no? So, Donald Duck was one of my first mentors. But I had already been fascinated by a Rembrandt portrait jigsaw puzzle -- all those smokey darks and glints of gold, each one just hint on some tiny jigsaw piece. Ah, a little mark could be the whole night sky.
You puzzled over Donald's beak, too? Wow! But my second experiences were with reproduction plates in the Encyclopaedia Britannica of pencil drawings of landscape design. I loved those pencil renderings. And then, too, being a boy, I got excited about cars and airplanes and stuff (before the girl thing kicked in and I went scouring the EB for other artistic plates).
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