Saturday, October 06, 2007

Eccentric Art

They say that artists are eccentric. Well, I have a VERY eccentric art teacher at NAFA. All year long, while students in the other classes are practicing classic still life compositions like cups and vases, we had to draw and paint all sorts of weird things like a plush donkey on a basket of persimmons and dragonfruit with meat dumplings.

Last week, we started on our third piece of oil, and she presented the class with this still-life arrangement:


Her theory was that 上完大学, 幼稚园就很容易。

er...okay. Let's see if it works.

Given how extremely long the drying time for oil glazes is, I think it would be impossible to finish this as scheduled in four weeks. As one of my classmates said," 我看这一副可能要画一辈子!" I tend to agree.