a survey of sorts

[pipu]

How did you learn to do the things that you do

Comments

[cottonmanifesto]

i have learned everything by doing and occasional supplemental book reading for theory (dog training and child-rearing specifically).

[serrana]

Doesn't one, on some level, learn everything by doing? I mean, a classroom educational situation that doesn't, in some way, include "doing," even if doing is reading a book, isn't going to have a lot of instructional value.

[pipu]

Yes yes, but you know what I'm asking. There's a difference between figuring something out for yourself and receiving formal instruction.

[serrana]

So you never had any childhood instruction in painting at all? You developed those skills in a vacuum? Spontaneously invented your own paints and decided to put them on flat surfaces?

("When I was a child, my mother made me sit in this vacuum all day long. It was dark in there, and there weren't any paintings. I spent a lot of time picking cat hair out of my nose. As I got older, she had to move from an upright to a canister model, and then a shop vac, and then finally she stuck me in a closet.")

[pipu]

I can't figure out if you're being serious or facetious here. I mean, this comment is like a parody of this kind of argument.

[tokori]

pretty much everything trial and error- with the exception of sewing and knitting- I took classes or was taught

[meestagoat]

Poetry/literature/writing: first taught informally by my mom, then read a million books on my own, then taught formally at college and grad school

Teaching: continual training while being thrown into doing it right away

Editing: learning by doing, though I learned the finer points by reading books

Knitting: taught basics by a friend, learned the rest by doing

Spinning (which I do rarely): took a class

[gwenzilla]

What I learned in college wasn't terribly practical but it was interesting and you know what they say at Mills, "round tones, round, vowels, well-rounded women

[pipu]

I have no experience with Studio One. Who is the instructor?

I definitely think I learned a lot of background stuff in college, but the media I do now is all the stuff I didn't study at CCAC.

[gwenzilla]

Anthony Stillman
https://securerw.oaklandnet.com/adet.sdi?activity_id=33300

[pipu]

I don't know him. While the assumption that I would know who your instructor is seems a bit odd, I find my old classmates from CCAC popping up in these things all the time, so you never know.

I want to get back into doing some jewelry stuff, but not enough to haul my ass down to UO's craft center and pay for shared space. One of these years I'm going to set up my own little metals studio in our house.