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Date Posted: 08:41:50 12/03/01 Mon
Author: denny
Subject: Re: i have some questions
In reply to: Cena 's message, "Re: i have some questions" on 00:33:02 12/02/01 Sun

that very damn thing happened to me cena.
it was jr.high though,my teacher ask if he could enter it in a contest,i said yes ofcorase.that was the end of it,i didnt place but he just plain lost it.i never did get it back.
imo,you should keep some old work for compairison later.
i dont give much away because i believe its not good enouth.
i get very few really honest opinions.
hint hint....


>I LOVED Art School. I had a terrible time finishing
>projects and didn't do well with constructive
>critism...
>
>Now, in my more mature age, I find that whatever craft
>I seek to do, I manage an above fair result. I have a
>bad time 'deciding' what to do. I can spend hours
>thinking about what I might like to draw, paint, or
>sketch. In the depths of my mind I keep thinking a
>REAL artist wouldn't have this problem, which I know
>is crap!
>
>When I do get a bee in my bonnet, I whip something out.
>
>I have the distinction of being given a canvas in
>highschool that fit a frame that the school already
>owned... and I was 'voted' to paint a picture for the
>priciples office. You know, because we had that cool
>frame. The art teacher decided to send it to the
>state college, MU, for some student contest thing.
>Much to my shock, I came in fourth in the contest, and
>since it was Missouri University, and the field of
>competitors was SO wide, I was stunned.
>
>They never returned the painting, the Art Voting
>Council lost track of who and where. It helped that
>this was the college that was far enough away from
>home that I WANTED to go there. I traveled there in
>my own car, alone, ran out of gas, I hadn't owned the
>car long enough to know the gauge was shot, and empty
>really showed on the dial as still a 1/4 of a tank...
>
>I got there, did the tour, asked around for the Art
>Department, and then they showed me this room where
>all the unclaimed art was. Can you say warehouse,
>with BAD lighting??? Amazingly, it was the first
>stack that I started through, about the 10th pic in.
>I was so jazzed. I took it home, with all the
>intentions of the principle hanging it back in his
>painted cinderblock office. My father put a stop to
>that. It has hung in his office since, even after he
>passed Mom keeps it in 'his office'.
>
>I painted that picture in less than 20 hours.
>Everytime I see it I am amazed. I wish that I could
>stick with a program and deliver. I have done some
>since, but I have no vanity, and don't like to keep
>them around.
>
>Thanks for putting up with a lot of ancient history,
>blathering on, and what not.

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