{"id":253,"date":"2018-08-04T19:04:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T02:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jeffquiros.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2018-08-04T19:10:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T02:10:43","slug":"drawing-with-a-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jeffquiros.com\/index.php\/2018\/08\/04\/drawing-with-a-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing with a stick"},"content":{"rendered":"

While an Art student at UC Davis in the late \u201860\u2019s, I took some theatrical set design classes and spent time in the set shop. One of my teachers, Gene Chesley<\/a>, was a hell of a guy and a key influence on me.<\/p>\n

One time he asked me to transfer a drawing of a sunset on a piece of paper to the entire stage backdrop canvas for a production – about 20\u2019 high and 60\u2019 long. He suggested I use a grid on the paper and a larger grid on the canvas and draw in each square.<\/p>\n

Seemed like a lot of work to me, so I just had the canvas stretched onto the set elevator covering entire back wall of the shop, found a 15\u2019 piece of 1×1 lumber, taped a large piece of charcoal to end and drew directly on the canvas with my giant pencil.<\/p>\n

The whole shop was abuzz about what I was doing – they’d never seen anything like it before and I could have easily ruined an expensive piece of canvas.<\/p>\n

Then Gene walked in and everything got quiet … I could tell he had been expecting something quite different; my canvas was not an exact 1 for 1 rendering of the original drawing. I don\u2019t know if he was smiling or biting his lip, but he didn\u2019t jump on me or call me a lazy bastard, he just said “well OK, this will work”.<\/p>\n

I look back at him now and admire his ability to grant beingness so, so much – truly a great man who left us way too young.<\/p>\n

I recently learned that Henri Matisse also drew with a long stick sometimes … maybe Gene knew that.<\/p>\n

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While an Art student at UC Davis in the late \u201860\u2019s, I took some theatrical set design classes and spent time in the set shop. One of my teachers, Gene Chesley, was a hell of a guy and a key influence on me. One time he asked me to transfer a drawing of a sunset … <\/p>\n

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