Ah, the days of my youth when I was always striving toward a goal and the criteria for reaching those goals were defined, set and enforced by others. In high school and college I would be mortified if I didn’t do every assignment ON TIME. And there was no way I would drop a course. It was an unwritten law that what I started I finished.
No slacking. There were people taking attendance, people grading my work, people watching my progress.
The age of technology has changed all that. I’ve discovered the beauty about taking on-line courses – if you miss the class (in my case the entire course) no one knows. I signed up for Carla Sonheim’s Faces class a few years back and never did the exercises. So here it is again. I’m already 3 days behind a 5 day course. (That is also the beauty of Carla’s on-line classes – you can do them at your own speed and time and take them again for free!)
Here’s day one – Faces from our imagination: Paint a blob of water-color the shape of a face, put hair on it and make a face with pencil:
The assignment was to do 8 faces. I pooped out after 5. So now I’m only 2 days and 3 faces behind.
That’s also the beauty of on-line – I can finally be an under-achiever!
CURIOUS to the MAX 
You Underachiever? Au contraire! You achieve in one painting way over what it would take other’s eight. I love all of them. So much expression on each. The guy looks glum:) Think he’s related to the lady with blue hair….ha. My fav is the guy in orange hair. When I open them up this morning, I laughed, and took them with me and enjoyed the day. The orange hair guy is on my desktop, replacing you upside down.
Thanks Overachiever Minimalist extraordinaire.
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Aeeda,
Your hired as my art critic/publicist extraordinaire!
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Love the faces you drew.
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ALL of you check out LeggyPeggy’s last post http://leggypeggy.com/2014/10/23/not-quite-national-geographic-but-plenty-of-boobs/ SO YOU KNOW WHY SHE LOVES THE FACES I DREW!
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I did this course last winter and loved it. The faces that you did do are great. I think there were a couple of assignments in that course that I didn’t do either. I even signed up for her gelli printing class again and didn’t get to one assignment the second time around. Luckily I did most of them the first time. I thought it would be good to do a ‘refresher’ class but I was too busy. Life got in the way.
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