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I started at Plympton High School in 1963, and was allocated to a class with French and Latin as the special subjects.\u00a0 We had four Latin teachers that year, with poor results, and about 12 students from the boys and girls classes accepted the option to swap to a combined class on Drawing in the second year.\u00a0 So, we were a small class, and received more attention and encouragement than most.\u00a0 Drawing consisted of Composition, Design and Lettering, using student quality watercolour paints.<\/p>\n
It is one decision I have never regretted.<\/p>\n
Drawing only went to fourth year, during fifth year I needed to take up Modern History instead.<\/p>\n
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Fourth Year High School artwork – watercolour on cartridge paper, 22 x 15″<\/p>\n
With moving house and clean ups, very little remains of art work done almost 60 years ago. For these few, I am grateful to my mother who thought they were worth keeping.<\/p>\n
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Fourth Year High School artwork – watercolour on cartridge paper, 22 x 15″<\/p>\n
In the following year, I did an oil painting on this same theme using the geometric style, and it worked so well that a distant relative asked for it, and it has long gone.<\/p>\n
When I am outdoors sketching, and people stop and say, \u201cI can\u2019t paint or draw\u201d, I like to look back at this. None of us can sit down and play the piano first time, and concert pianists still do their daily exercises in playing scales.<\/p>\n
And so it is with painting. I was at my best when I spent 30 minutes on most days with a sketchbook.<\/p>\n
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Fourth Year High School artwork – conte on cartridge paper, 22 x 15″<\/p>\n
After doing the conte sketch of St. Peter\u2019s cathedral, our next class assignment was to do a self portrait, so I tried it with that geometric approach.<\/p>\n
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Illustration for High School Yearbook – original was conte on paper, 22 x 15″, since lost, this image was taken from the yearbook.<\/p>\n
Mrs Todd invited me to see if I could do an entry for the yearbook.<\/p>\n
I recalled from Art History some comments about how Monet\u2019s paintings of Rouen Cathedral had pockets of geometric shapes of colour as shadows, and I decided to apply that in a larger way to our own St Peter\u2019s cathedral.\u00a0 I applied that same geometric approach to other artwork.<\/p>\n
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Illustration for High School Yearbook – conte on paper – image taken from photocopy of the yearbook.<\/p>\n
This artwork was an illustration for a contribution entitled, “Abstract Autumn” by Julie.\u00a0 The full text is in the list below.<\/p>\n
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Illustration for High School Yearbook – conte on paper – image taken from photocopy of the yearbook.<\/p>\n
This artwork appeared as an illustration for a contribution entitled “A Time to Keep Silence” by Christine (full text in list below).<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a small world!<\/p>\n
Christine is the elder sister of the agent who sold me the unit in which I now live. He was also involved in the building of a house at the rear of Mum\u2019s house many years before, and we chose him to sell Mum\u2019s house when she moved into a nursing home.<\/p>\n
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Pencil on cartridge paper, 9 x 13″<\/p>\n
There was a first, and best, painting of sailing boats in watercolour, done as a class assignment, which Mrs Todd wanted me to frame and enter in the Advertiser Art competition.<\/p>\n
That didn\u2019t happen, as framing costs were too expensive for me, but I liked the design so much I tried it in other media; here in pencil, and the following year in oils.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the watercolour painting has been lost.<\/p>\n
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Oil on canvas paper, 10 x 15″<\/p>\n
This painting has been damaged a little, and the colours have become a little dull, but I am glad I kept it.<\/p>\n
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Pencil on cartridge paper, 22 x 15 inches, from a photograph.<\/p>\n
At the end of the school year, some friends and I dropped into a small graduation party for a short time, and I was later given a small 6 x 4\u2033 print of the group.<\/p>\n
During the following year, my first at university, I did a sketch of Daina from that photograph.<\/p>\n
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Fourth Year High School artwork – watercolour on cartridge paper, 22 x 15″<\/p>\n
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With moving house and clean ups, very little remains of art work done almost 60 years ago.\u00a0 For these few, I am grateful to my mother who thought they were worth keeping.<\/p>\n
The student colours have faded with time.<\/p>\n
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Fourth Year High School artwork – watercolour on cartridge paper, 22 x 15″<\/p>\n
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In the following year, I did an oil painting on this same theme using the geometric style, and it worked extremely well!\u00a0 So much so, that a\u00a0 distant family member asked for it, and it has long gone.<\/p>\n
When I am outdoors sketching, and people stop and say, “I can’t paint or draw, I’m no good at that”, I like to look back at this.\u00a0 None of us can sit down and play the piano first time either, and even skilled pianists will do their daily exercises in playing scales.<\/p>\n
And so it is with painting.\u00a0 I would be a lot better if I had kept up the habit of spending at least 30 minutes each day with a sketchbook.<\/p>\n
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Fourth Year High School artwork – conte on cartridge paper, 22 x 15″<\/p>\n
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After doing the conte sketch of St. Peter’s cathedral, our next class assignment was to do a self portrait, so I tried it with that geometric approach.<\/p>\n
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Illustration for High School Yearbook – original was conte on paper, 22 x 15 inches, since lost, this image was taken from the yearbook<\/p>\n
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Mrs Todd gave me some quality paper and conte sticks, and asked me to see if I could try to do an entry for the yearbook in my own time.<\/p>\n
The only thing I heard in Art History that year were comments about how Monet’s paintings of Rouen Cathedral had pockets of geometric shapes of colour as shadows, and I decided to apply that in a larger way to our own St Peter’s cathedral.<\/p>\n
The yearbook committee were very pleased, but the printer sent it back with a request it be redone on white paper, as the printing techniques at that time could not reproduce from the darker conte paper I had used.<\/p>\n
I was reluctant to spend the many more hours it took to redo the sketch, but I am glad I did, and I applied that same geometric approach to other artwork.<\/p>\n
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Illustration for High School Yearbook – conte on paper – image taken from photocopy of the yearbook<\/p>\n
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This artwork was an illustration for the following contribution:<\/p>\n
Abstract Autumn
This day have I awoken from a dream.
Too long I have drifted unknowingly.
All my day’s were filled with routine.
Patterns, never changing, were my life,
But no more.
For today I have discovered beauty.
IVIany years she has surrounded me
But I have lived on unconscious of her.
Now. I have discovered her. personified
In abstract autumn.
The leaves are yellow, brown and red.
But some are still tinted green from summer
The boughs are brown and wet and shiny.
I cannot see the grass for leafy blankets
But it is there.
The sky is a transparent blue.
I seem to look right through it to infinity.
The clouds are not alien bodies but part of it
The birds are moving too fast through it.
They do not belong.
Here all is quiet. tranquil beauty.
Speed has no part in my discovery
And I am glad the birds have gone
I am now left to enjoy
Abstract autumn.
Julie<\/p>\n
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Illustration for High School Yearbook – conte on paper – image taken from photocopy of the yearbook<\/p>\n
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This artwork appeared as an illustration for the following contribution:<\/p>\n
A Time to Keep Silence
Have you ever stopped and gazed at the sun’s rich golden reflections on the sea. letting its rays melt through your skin? Have you ever let the cool gentle breezes of Spring softly blow your hair across your face, and force you to brush the silken strands from your lashes? The frosty, chilled winds may have polished your cheeks as you have finally ascended a sand-hill on a biting winter’s morning. These moments
lure you to stand silently and feel yourself breathing and your heart beating and the birds singing.
Then as the sun gradually slips the last few inches over the horizon a jet streams in front of your view, with its thick. misty columns trailing behind it for miles; it heads towards the few remaining. once warmly-golden rays of sunlight. and blots your last view of the companion which captured your fleeting moment, as it disappears until tomorrow.
Christine<\/p>\n
It’s a small world!<\/p>\n
Christine was the elder sister of the agent who sold me the unit in which I now live.\u00a0 He was also involved in the building of a house at the rear of Mum’s house many years before, and we chose him to sell Mum’s house when she moved into a nursing home.<\/p>\n
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pencil on cartridge paper, 9 x 13″<\/p>\n
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There was a first, and best, painting of sailing boats in watercolour, done as a class assignment, which Mrs Todd wanted me to frame and enter in the Advertiser Art competition.<\/p>\n
That didn’t happen, as framing costs were too expensive for me, but I liked the design so much I tried it in other media; here in pencil, and the following year in oils.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the watercolour painting has been lost.<\/p>\n
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Oil on canvas paper, 10 x 15″<\/p>\n
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This painting has been damaged a little, and the colours have become a little dull, but I am glad I kept it.<\/p>\n
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Pencil on cartridge paper, 22 x 15 inches, from a photograph<\/p>\n
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At the end of the school year, some friends and I dropped into a small graduation party for a short time, and I was later given a small 6 x 4″ print of the group.<\/p>\n
During the following year, my first at university, I did a sketch of Daina from that photograph.<\/p>\n
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No name or photo available<\/p>\n
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Our first day introduction to Drawing, after being freed from Latin, was amazing!<\/p>\n
The teacher was young and beautiful, and dressed in a smartly elegant style, and we were awestruck.\u00a0 She demanded, and received, complete attention and concentration during class.<\/p>\n
Our first day exercise was to paint a still life without thinking of what the objects were, but simply to record the shapes of colour we could see in front of us.\u00a0 That first lesson drew us over the biggest hurdle in painting, and it immersed me in the delight of applying colour, a transforming experience which I still enjoy.<\/p>\n
I am sorry to have forgotten her name, but I remember most everything she said, and I am forever grateful to her for the way she taught us by leading and guiding us into:<\/p>\n
a love of beauty in life;
a willingness to tackle hard work;
a delight in colour and form.<\/p>\n
During that year she managed to teach us all of the basic principles of design and composition.\u00a0 Any book I read now only refreshes the knowledge she gave us.<\/p>\n
I think she left the school at the end of that\u00a0 year.\u00a0 How very fortunate I was that our paths crossed for that short time.<\/p>\n
I also studied Woodwork during my first two years of High School, which included Perspective Drawing, and that made it easier in later years to understand perspective in painting, as well as making frames for paintings.<\/p>\n
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From the 1966 School Yearbook<\/p>\n
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Mrs Lindsaar had a marked Eastern European accent, but I didn’t notice that after I quickly understood her love of Art and her gentle and kind method of teaching.<\/p>\n
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From the 1966 School Yearbook<\/p>\n
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Mrs Todd was also a wonderful teacher, she took us for Design and Composition,<\/p>\n
I think attending a good art class is important to set beginners in the right direction, to teach basic principles and techniques of composition and painting, and to give encouragement to work throuth any difficulties.\u00a0 But it is only a beginning, the real painting begins when we are immersed in the struggle to record and convey our vision of the wonderful beauty of creation.\u00a0 That vision is unique for each person, and cannot be taught.\u00a0 But a teacher can set challenges to enable a student to gain the experience of that struggle, and I was fortunate that Mrs. Todd knew how to give that guidance.<\/p>\n
She also spoke about the importance of keeping appropriate works for my portfolio for entrance into Art School, which would have been through the Art Teaching course, but that didn’t happen for a variety of reasons.<\/p>\n
As the third component for that year, Lettering was replaced by History of Art, and was taught by another teacher who did not have the same gift of encouragement.\u00a0 During the exam at the end of the year, I found I couldn’t answer any of the questions on History of Art, but I saw I could do something on the Lettering question, so although I was out of practice I answered that instead.\u00a0 That would have reduced my grade from A to B, much to Mrs Todd’s disappointment.<\/p>\n
The following year was my final at High School, it had a large workload, and for relaxation in my spare time I read books on Art History.\u00a0 By the end of that year I could have easily answered those Art History exam questions.<\/p>\n
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During my final year, I was invited onto the School Yearbook Committee to look at art contributions, and I did a couple of illustrations for the yearbook.\u00a0 We had our photos on the committee page of the yearbook.<\/p>\n
Kay was another student on the art side of the committee, which explains the title of my photo.\u00a0 She and Daina, and one or two others from our school, went into the Art Teaching course.<\/p>\n
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It can be difficult when you are moving house, and you don’t have much storage space, but at this age I wish I had kept everything I produced.<\/p>\n
Even those small quick sketches you think are rubbish.\u00a0 In later years you can see so much in them.<\/p>\n
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I have seen that advice repeated many times, and always thought it didn’t apply when people thought of themselves as just beginning.\u00a0 But I now enjoy seeing my early work, and I wish I had followed that advice.<\/p>\n
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To pause the slide viewer, hover or tap on the viewer background.\u00a0 Hover or tap on any other background to resume.<\/em><\/p>\n To jump to a painting, click on the dots at the bottom of the viewer.<\/em><\/p>\n To view the image in the picture display on your device, click the \u201cView\u201d button, or click on the image in the list below the viewer.<\/em><\/p>\n To manually slide the images, click on the arrows < > at each side of the viewer.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Press Esc or click on X at top right to continue<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#f4f4f4″ da_disable_devices=”off|off|off” global_colors_info=”{}” da_is_popup=”off” da_exit_intent=”off” da_has_close=”on” da_alt_close=”off” da_dark_close=”off” da_not_modal=”on” da_is_singular=”off” da_with_loader=”off” da_has_shadow=”on”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_comments _builder_version=”4.20.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_comments][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1. High School Years 1964-66 I started at Plympton High School in 1963, and was allocated to a class with French and Latin as the special subjects.\u00a0 We had four Latin teachers that year, with poor results, and about 12 students from the boys and girls classes accepted the option to swap to a combined […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1002","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johndc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johndc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johndc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johndc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johndc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/johndc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/johndc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1002\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johndc.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}