[LMB] Aral's drawing OT:

[Tzivia Adler]

> This little skill of Aral's was always particularly charming (and appealing) for me, not least because my original training in art was  primarily in drawing.  But it brings up the point which is that drawing is like any other skill---anyone can learn it;  it's just so poorly  valued in our society that few people bother.
> (sorry, lost the attibute)
>

poorly valued is not -quite- the same as not valued at all, though.  

<TMI alert> 

i like to draw, although my pictures seldom resmemble what i want them to.  in fact, i draw and color like a kindergarten child.  lest anyone think i exagerate, i have spent 'quality time' with each of my four kids, paper, and a box of crayons and colored pencils.  as the year went on, their work improved and mine ... didn't.  perhaps its a matter of perception - if i wasn't actually touching a line, it tended to waver like a plucked string, which made drawing and coloring-it-in rather difficult.  however much i like to make pretty things, putting pictures on paper is just not my thing.  i can live with this.  [1]

but.
(you knew there was a but coming up, right?)

my mom in law got her master's degree in special education for pre-school children some years ago.  the family were [2] all very impressed, they may say you can't teach an old dog new tricks but look at grandma, look what you can do if  you apply yourself to your studies, etc etc.  

a great deal of her work involved teaching the alphabet again and agian, and hand-eye co-ordination, and memory games.  so she made projects and tried them out first on the pre-school grandkids.  most of these projects involved coloring in letters of hte alphabet and tehn cutting them out.  i never got involved in these things, bec. frankly my kids do it better than i.  how embarassing.  i never took the projects to do at home, no matter how often she insisted.  

and so she decided i was too lazy.  adn as hte years went on and i continued to refuse her 'i'm a professional and you should do as i say' projects, her treatment of me has gone rather badly downhill.  

and so while art may be poorly valued by adults in our society, that is really is not -quite- the same as not valued at all.  

ziviya


[1]  two of my sisters paint on an amateur basis:  nice enough to hang up in the house, or give as gifts, but they laug at going  professional.  i make tapesties on the same basis, except more often :)   i really, really like making pretty things.  i just have to be able to touch it enough to compensate for wavery vision

[2] was?  were?  was?  eh, whatever.  someone feel free to point out the correct procedure for a collective noun.
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