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Patron has decided I need exercise. Not with brush, with thinking. Challenge simple enough: take something completely outside normal scribal work, pull apart, and show how I would find bones of scroll hiding inside. Not simply make something that looks appropriate, more importantly show work. Find visual language, trace where choices might have come from,…
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Past several months I have been dealing with injury to both elbows. For man whose greatest joy being at scribal desk, brush in hand, time has been frustrating lesson in patience. Some days I felt genuinely useless. Artists often measure ourselves by what we create. Finished painting. Another study. Another lesson learned through our own…
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Discussion with Patron – awareness. Interesting data point: Patron and squire brothers got into 3 hour argument over joke: “what part of car most susceptible to failure? Nut behind wheel.” This degenerated to five engineers arguing over frames of reference and definition of “behind” relative to car’s steering wheel. Patron’s book on fighting methods with…
