Great Second Art Class
I taught my second class in Myeong-Dong last night. It went very well and was lots of fun. The lesson was titled, “Connecting Eyes and Hands,” and I took them through a bunch of fast figure-drawing exercises Rosie Paschall taught us years ago in Art I at MBA. I had them do thirty 10-second sketches, ten 1-minute sketches and six 5-minute sketches. There was lots of good energy among everyone, and they seemed to have fun taking turns posing for the class. I wrapped it up with a little Art History lesson connecting the drawings of DaVinci and Michelangelo with the techniques they had just practiced. This is a really important element in art instruction, I think, so I’ll be concluding every lesson that way each week.
We had a little drop off in attendance from the first week, after a couple of people realized it would conflict with their schedules, but we still had six students, almost all of whom you can see in the photos above of the post-class festivities. (Sorry about the poor focus)
On the left is an Aussie named Rebecca, who is married to a Korean fellow named Trent. She’s lived here for 11 years now. Next to her is Jessica and I, of course. Next to me is Sunida and next to her is Genie and Daeha Kwon. Daeha owns the studio where I’m teaching the class and Genie is his fiancee. Next to Kwon is Lydia and Linda. Amazingly enough, Linda lives very near where we live in Paju, so she was able to give us a ride home in her car. The odds of that are pretty amazing when you consider that there are 16 million people living in Seoul and yet one out of six students lives in our neighborhood over an hour outside of Seoul.
-A.
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