Jim demonstrates for us a fine art painting excersice that we use in our Mission Renaissance course room.

The exercise involves placing a linen napkin over an object and capturing all the folds and cresses. This excessive is very helpful in getting the student to be able to paint more complicated three dimensional objects that do not have precise angles in their form, such as flowing clothing on a person or a bunched up blanket on a bed.

Here Jim shows us complete understanding and execution of this fine art painting drill.

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Many people carry around with them the false datum that they can not learn how to draw and paint because they do not have natural artistic talent.

Larry Gluck dispels this false information and other misinformation about the subject of art in his book "The Talent Myth".

Just like any skill there is a technique to it and it can be taught and learned.

You would probably think it ridiculous if we told you this web site was build by someone who was born having web design talent and new html code before their ABCs.

The same is true for fine art. Musicians learn and practice musical scales, dancers develop their bodies and drill into themselves a fine sense of rhythm.

The same concept applies to drawing and painting. You can learn to draw and paint beautifully because it is a skill that has fundamental truths to it that can be taught.

If you can only draw stick figures it does not mean that you do not have the ability to be a fine artist, it just means you lack the artistic fundamentals of drawing depth and dimension.

After learning these skills and practicing them you would then be able to move beyond stick figures and into drawing three dimensional figures. Then perhaps you would learn how to draw light and shadow effects, then you would practice that.

Then you would add another drawing fundamental and so on until you had the skill of drawing under your belt and could use it.