{"id":13,"date":"2007-12-13T20:02:33","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T01:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maryahernartist.com\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/13\/first-drawing-class\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T12:31:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T17:31:14","slug":"first-drawing-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryahernartist.com\/art-blog\/first-drawing-class\/","title":{"rendered":"First Drawing Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Classical art education classes began for me when I was accepted into the Fine Arts program at City University of New York, (CUNY) York College<\/strong> in Queens NY<\/strong> during the mid-70\u2019s. My first drawing class brought me to the Queens Museum<\/strong> in Flushing Meadow Park to study and sketch the plaster casts of the Greek, Roman and Renaissance eras. As I studied Art History<\/strong> I found that this was a method of training Artists with a tradition going back centuries. I feel proud to have been taught in the classical art tradition in which the Masters studied. I am so glad that I had that platform as the basis of my entire Art career.<\/p>\n

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In my first college level drawing classes we drew from plaster casts of famous sculptures<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/h4>\n

I remember feeling totally honored at seeing those casts so up close and personal in the hidden rooms of the museum. I felt like I was being introduced into a select world, the world of the Artist<\/strong>. It was the beginning of being a part of a long tradition of people who were looking to learn their craft so they could find ways to describe things and views and images and ideas.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t yet thinking of expressing my voice. I was just learning my craft. I had studied music in Junior and Senior High Schools and one of the ways I learned to master my trumpet was to play the scales up and down endlessly. Drawing, in the beginning, was very much like doing the scales. I needed to own the medium before I could begin to be creative with it. You become an Artist<\/strong> when the process takes backstage and your creative vision can flow.<\/p>\n

I practiced, practiced and practiced my trumpet but never made it to Carnegie Hall. I did however, by practicing, become a professional Artist<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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