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Job: 11803 Title: #218076# Drawing Lessons From The Famous Artists School (Rockport)
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Empathy, or the ability to feel with the characters and the action you
are portraying, is the secret to making your pictures come alive. The
spirit of the event, according to Austin Briggs, is more important than
the fact. Paint what moves you; present your emotions so that your
viewer can share them.
Exploring a similar theme, Norman Rockwell’s Girl at Mirror,
a 1954 Saturday Evening Post cover illustration, pictures a child’s
transition to young adulthood. Rockwell ...