We need the vulnerability.

That's what makes that amazing pose.

That's what makes incredible art.

It literally is what we need to make art,

to make powerful, authentic art.

I mean, authentic because it's your bag of concerns and worries,

but that's what vulnerability can do. It inspires other people. It makes it seem possible.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Art to Life podcast. I am going to start with a story as to do with life drawing, that practice of trying to draw things from life.

And I was never particularly good at this.

It's very challenging to start learning to draw because everybody knows what a figure looks

like, what a person looks like, and what you put on the paper.

And there's the models standing in front of you,

and you have something on the piece of paper

that's supposed to be that, clearly,

that's what you're trying to do.

And you have this misformed, humanoid looking thing.

It's so rough, it's so hard.

But there's a tremendous value in learning to see and draw the human form

and all the great reasons why drawing, learning to draw is powerful.

It helps in abstract painting.

It helps.

It's just the ultimate in nuance and subtlety, perspective, and actually just seeing.

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