{"id":5187,"date":"2012-01-25T20:40:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T04:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=5187"},"modified":"2012-01-25T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T04:40:09","slug":"new-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2012\/01\/25\/new-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"New tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night I took my first drawing class in decades. It was a blast – and a real mental<\/em> work-out. I left feeling positively cross-eyed, my brain having gotten a rewiring to remember.<\/p>\n

The last drawing class I ever took was in Munich, with Peter Zeiler<\/a>, …in the late 1970s<\/em>. The late 70s, people, happened thirty-five years ago.<\/p>\n

I took classes<\/a> with Peter to prepare my portfolio for admission to the Staatliche Kunstakademie M\u00fcnchen<\/a> (a school I dropped out of, by the way, before it was cool to drop out of school – maybe this is a clue to get back into the milieu…).<\/p>\n

Peter<\/a> Zeiler<\/a> was the luckiest Munich find I made in the late ’70s (aside from that guy I married, of course) – an absolutely amazing teacher. I see that he’s no longer in Schwabing (where I took classes), but his studio and school<\/a> are still going strong. The banner announcing that this is the oldest private art school in Munich (50 years!) makes me rapidly move from feeling cross-eyed to historical, though. Where in hell does the time go? And why didn’t I keep up my drawing practice?<\/p>\n

That’s what I asked myself last night as I clunked my way through Lynn Kitagawa’s excellent Figure Drawing class at the Pacific Northwest College of Art<\/a>. I’ve got seven more evenings to reconnect to that muscle memory (including the ever-lazy-and-lazier eyeball muscles).<\/p>\n

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