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Intense training
In February, as my studio was completing, Emily came to study with me. She graduated with a BFA a few years ago and is working as a professional designer and illustrator in Salt Lake City. She is with me to study fine art and portraiture.
There is a new generation of young talent, all over the world, who are willing to tackle real old time art training, the kind that was perfected 200 years ago, and then later dropped and almost lost.
Emily started with the most basic of basic training, copying visual training drawings prepared in the 19th century by Charles Bargue. Each drawing must be perfect and the purpose of the exercise is to teach one to see with supreme accuracy.
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