"I want to draw like you, but I don't dare!"

[supergee]

The heretical idea that it's good to be able to draw and paint representationally.

Comments

[johnpalmer]

Hm. That's kind of scary.

I can get the notion of "Oh, good, you're running through your beginner's pieces, and some time after you've gotten your representational art down, you'll join the big boys and do abstraction".

That's not very *nice*, but at least it makes sense. I mean, that's been what I heard in many crafts. "Yes, I know, X_Artist breaks the rules, but X_Artist *learned* the rules and now *deliberately* breaks them!" I assumed it applied to art, as well - first you learn good representational sketching (at least!) and then you learned how to "play" with abstraction.