Something I have been avoiding. · Painting for Drawing Dropouts

Michelle Cyr

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Something I have been avoiding.

I tell you guys that I CAN draw but don't.

Why?

I don't really enjoy it.

Why?

Because my professor Ms. Grimes is still in my head telling me I will never be a good artist.

Yesterday,

@Heather van Doorn

was here IRL during Open Studio here in Wisconsin and I decided I should take my own advice. Push past my fear of fucking it up and just do it. After all, Heather is a really cool cat and isn't judgy. She is super positive, open and just all around cool.

So I drew her.

It's the first time I have tried any figure drawing in 32 years.

Guess what??

It FELT good!

I got lost in it.

I know it's not right but that is perfectly ok.

The FEELING is what I was after, not the outcome.

It was the first time I have done something for ME in a while.

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Something I have been avoiding.