The most valuable lesson I learned from this course is that restriction can be freeing...
Having to follow the instructions of the assignments or sample briefs to the letter sounds very restrictive but it is also very freeing.
The course unleashed my imagination in a contained area, in the same way a wild mustang is put into a round pen to get used to becoming comfortable, responsive and in tune with its rider.
Thanks to these restrictions I was able to create pictures on paper that otherwise would just have been ideas floating aimlessly in my head.
The school didn't teach me how to become imaginative just like the Mustang can't be taught how to be a horse. As a young girl I had a vivid imagination and I could just never draw a normal horse. I had to turn it into a ballerina, add wings or clothes because I always was a dreamer. This course brought out my strengths and helped me improve my weaknesses, enabling to use my imagination in an effective way.
In a couple of months I will be graduating and feel that I have finally have found my artistic path.
This feeling of finding my way has been one of the most joyful experiences in my life.
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| Holiday Joy Watercolors on paper by Ursula "Ariannah" Brozovich |
Therefore, I wish that 2013 will be the year for you to do what you love or find out what you want to do.
Merry Christmas!
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