Every year when the need to donate something for the holiday benefit “Deck the Walls” for the New York Academy of Art rolls around, I am seized with temporary delusions of drawing capacity. “Deck the Walls” features a whole lot of small inexpensive (maybe holiday themed?) works by the students faculty and alumni of the school.
The NYAA is a place where aspiring artists go to be taught by people who really know how to draw and how to teach drawing.
There is instruction in painting and sculpture also of course, and I am a person who teaches sculpture. And I might even be a person who took up sculpture because my drawing wasn’t really all that good. Can’t remember that far back now.
But I like to continually pretend that I know how to draw, mostly hoping that continual pretending will lead eventually to actual capacity. (Most often, I do an end run around this topic by drawing on absorbent paper products.)
Like all previous years, this time, I started out optimistically, with low expectations, just planning to knock out something silly and inexpensive...and then somewhere along the way I started to get self conscious about the silly concept and the less than stellar drawing.
But here it is on social media. Maybe I will work up enough chutzpah to actually donate the drawing to t
This image is a les- interesting-than-hoped spin-off of an image of a kid’s Santa and Reindeer costume- one of those where the wearer’s legs go down into the reindeer portion and the Santa body is a weird floppy stuffed doll sitting on top.
I now realize it is disturbingly similar to a holiday donation from two years back- Zombie Santa with Rudolph the red nosed skeleton. That one found no takers- despite the novelty of it being a napkin in a frame. You can see it at the above link if the description was enticing...
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