Paint Standing Up
by rrusczyk, Feb 17, 2011, 5:53 AM
My wife attends an art studio where the teacher strongly recommends that everyone paint standing up. His reasoning is that if you are standing up, you are more likely to step away from your painting and look at it from farther away. Or, "get your nose out of your painting". This helps you see it as a viewer will see it, and adjust accordingly. This puts me in mind of when I used to work with students one-on-one in person, and would occasionally take the student's pencil away and say, "Solve the problem." Or the scene in Searching for Bobby Fischer where the teacher wipes the pieces off the board and tells the student to do the same. When you're lost in the details, you need mechanisms to step away from the details and get a broader view.
Come to think of it, I need one of those mechanisms for work...
Come to think of it, I need one of those mechanisms for work...
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