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Drawing Class at the Library

We were at the Main branch of the library for the Boy and some companions to take a drawing class. It was one of the library’s free programs for kids. Our favorite children’s librarian–the one from Minnesota if you’ve ever chatted with him–is also an artist, and was giving the lesson in the children’s room class area. I like that the lesson was about drawing clouds. You can’t imagine that you’ve gotten a cloud wrong (the Boy is an art-phobe). Next lesson they’ll be outside drawing trees. Excellent! Happy little trees.

The favorite librarian said most of the large drawings in the library, of book characters like Arthur, Winnie the Pooh, Harry Potter, were done by projecting the image on a sheet taped to the wall, then tracing the image. Others are done free-hand, like the dinosaurs on the back wall.

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