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i've been thinking about painting and a better way to teach it than the standard way academia does it. i remember how it was when i took those beginning classes and how unthrilled i was about attending as though it was the most uncreative processes. i keep challenging the idea that a beginning course can provide both a beginning technical practice and also be creative. spending 2 hrs drawing/painting a naked person in the early morning didn't really seem to foster any of the two for me. i feel somehow fortunate to find myself painting now rather so much then. if i was some how forced to teach drawing and/or painting how would i do it? i would gear my syllibi towards creative ways to learn the basics; creative in the means of an individual approach rather than an imposed academy structure--creative tools is how i would sell it. i would like to think more about this.