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1. Another masterpiece! I was convincing my dad to look at some of your work. He’s so modest it’s painful. I think I’ve seen him without his shirt on a total of 5 times. lol So I had to prepare him for the tastefully done nudity. I asked him first what he thought was the hardest to sketch when it came to a portrait or the body. I was hoping he would say what I was thinking. He answered after thinking for several minutes ” The hands, feet, getting the proportion of the legs right,…….”. That’s where I lost him. He drifted of into a memory. But it was exactly what I was thinking. When I finally showed him your work he knew exactly why. He studied every detail. Something came alive in his eyes for a brief amount of time. He understood and appreciated the way you capture what other artists can’t. It may have inspired him a bit. Thank you Ted!

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   • The affect of your dad’s eyes lighting up like that, gives me the strength to keep at it. It is that kind of reaction that keeps me going. So cool! Thank you for having him take a look and telling me about it. I am not sure at all what the hardest part of figure drawing is..When I was young, I could never get someone’s hair correctly. I asked my teacher , how do you draw hair. He said, ‘Fake It.’ 🙂

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     • That made me laugh. I often find myself doing that. I call it “acting as if”. As if I know what I’m actually doing. Sometimes it works. Animals are tough for a lot of artists. There is always a discrepancy in the jaw, nose, and eyes. Not many can do that accurately. Believe me I know from my wolf tattoo. I love it because it covered a memory and it isn’t that bad I also love wolves. Then I’ll see a wolf tattoo on TV or on someone else and think “I’m glad no one can see mine” lol. My dad and sister have the artistic genes in the family, my mom could sing and dance, I inherited none of these. I can dance while driving in my car from the waist up and that’s mostly nodding my head. lol

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     • Your comment had me thinking throughout today. The whole thing about depicting different images, creatures. The trick , I find, is to get to a type of seeing without thinking or naming, just eyes and one’s hands in unison, not naming that this is a nose or this is an animal wolf, whatever. I find if I can turn off the left side of my brain, the right side, the creative side will get the job done, accurately.

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