Friday, July 7, 2017
Man in the moon
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Thursday, June 15, 2017
Hello
Hello!
My name is Debbie and I am about to tell you the story of why I'm starting a blog. Grab a cup of coffee and settle in cause I come from a chatty family. I guess the beginning is a good place. When I was a little girl I just loved to draw. Mom said all of her money went to crayons and I think she wasn't far wrong. People were beginning to say I was good at it.
There was a painting hanging on the wall in our family room. I decided to copy it, in my humble way, with crayons. Everyone said it was good and I gave it away to one of my mom's friends. After they left mom said she wished I hadn't given it away because she wanted it. "No problem", I thought, I will draw another one.
I caught a bug and was to sick to draw for a day or two. When I was feeling better I got out my crayons and started drawing. I couldn't make anything work right. Trying to draw things like cups just wouldn't work--they were flat.
This was a big deal to me although I had no way of explaining it and I don't know how anyone could have helped me if I did. I tried and tried to get it right but nothing worked. Eventually I gave up drawing. I had other issues that just didn't seem to make sense but that's another story. I have tried every crafty thing imaginable. I can knit, sew, crochet, make jewelry, make soap, origami, and play with polymer clay. I have a drawer full of rubber stamps. Nothing else really replaced drawing. I still had ideas for drawing in my head and I just couldn't get them out. It is my excuse for a lot of blank looks over the years.
I was in college when I discovered I have dyslexia. That explains a lot.
I'm 51 now and I have a 19 year old son. He was having trouble with math and the school suggested he should be tested for learning disabilities. He does, apparently it can be inherited. They said he needed vision therapy. I had never heard of such a thing but off we went. After a bit I decided I needed testing too. They say I have a visual processing disorder. They can't understand how I can be typing this now. Off to vision therapy I went.
I had been in therapy for about 2 months the first time I noticed that something looked 3-d to me. I can't explain it very well. It's like the whole world was a badly rendered drawing and suddenly something was drawn right.
Within two weeks, I had a drawing pen in my hand. I can't put them down. It's been three months and I have drawn at least a sketch every day. I'm no delayed prodigy. The first ones were awful and the newer ones show improvement I think. Every one is something I couldn't do for forty years, my own personal miracle.
So now I'm going to start blogging about drawing. I know lots of people draw better than I do. I would love to give a shout out to people who have helped me along my fledgling journey. Sometimes I have questions only I could ask. Sometimes no one online has an answer. I always figured if I want to know so do other people but they won't ask. If I have those moments, I'll share.
My name is Debbie and I am about to tell you the story of why I'm starting a blog. Grab a cup of coffee and settle in cause I come from a chatty family. I guess the beginning is a good place. When I was a little girl I just loved to draw. Mom said all of her money went to crayons and I think she wasn't far wrong. People were beginning to say I was good at it.
There was a painting hanging on the wall in our family room. I decided to copy it, in my humble way, with crayons. Everyone said it was good and I gave it away to one of my mom's friends. After they left mom said she wished I hadn't given it away because she wanted it. "No problem", I thought, I will draw another one.
I caught a bug and was to sick to draw for a day or two. When I was feeling better I got out my crayons and started drawing. I couldn't make anything work right. Trying to draw things like cups just wouldn't work--they were flat.
This was a big deal to me although I had no way of explaining it and I don't know how anyone could have helped me if I did. I tried and tried to get it right but nothing worked. Eventually I gave up drawing. I had other issues that just didn't seem to make sense but that's another story. I have tried every crafty thing imaginable. I can knit, sew, crochet, make jewelry, make soap, origami, and play with polymer clay. I have a drawer full of rubber stamps. Nothing else really replaced drawing. I still had ideas for drawing in my head and I just couldn't get them out. It is my excuse for a lot of blank looks over the years.
I was in college when I discovered I have dyslexia. That explains a lot.
I'm 51 now and I have a 19 year old son. He was having trouble with math and the school suggested he should be tested for learning disabilities. He does, apparently it can be inherited. They said he needed vision therapy. I had never heard of such a thing but off we went. After a bit I decided I needed testing too. They say I have a visual processing disorder. They can't understand how I can be typing this now. Off to vision therapy I went.
I had been in therapy for about 2 months the first time I noticed that something looked 3-d to me. I can't explain it very well. It's like the whole world was a badly rendered drawing and suddenly something was drawn right.
Within two weeks, I had a drawing pen in my hand. I can't put them down. It's been three months and I have drawn at least a sketch every day. I'm no delayed prodigy. The first ones were awful and the newer ones show improvement I think. Every one is something I couldn't do for forty years, my own personal miracle.
So now I'm going to start blogging about drawing. I know lots of people draw better than I do. I would love to give a shout out to people who have helped me along my fledgling journey. Sometimes I have questions only I could ask. Sometimes no one online has an answer. I always figured if I want to know so do other people but they won't ask. If I have those moments, I'll share.
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| here's the only person I have ever drawn, myself. I drew it with a micron pen, gave it a watercolor wash and edited on the computer. |
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