Time Not Wasted
The years spent trying to make a career in commercial art were not altogether wasted. I learned how to draw, which seems to be something of an accomplishment nowadays. That meant learning anatomy for one thing, since a lot of what I did involved the human figure. I very rarely attack the figure nowadays, and instead concentrate on still lifes and landscapes. But I’m certain that knowing where the coracobrachialis is does improve my work in some indefinable way.
At least at the outset I will write more about the difficulties and challenges posed by landscapes. They have proven more difficult for me than the still lifes, so I have had to think a lot more about how to do them. One of my professors often remarked that we learn more from our mistakes than from our successes. If so, I have learned an awful lot about painting and drawing landscapes.
At the present however, I know more about what not to do, than what I ought to do.
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