I didn’t want to embarrass Michel or myself, so, for days before the art workshop, I went on YouTube and the web, and watched videos of drawing the human figure in order to learn what I had forgotten. Michel told me the artists at the workshop would be using different mediums; paints, pastels, color pencils, charcoals, etc., but that all I needed was my pad of paper and pencil. That’s all he would be using. Last Saturday, it took only 15 minutes to walk through nearby Luxembourg Garden to the Academie de La Grande Chaumiere in the Montparnasse district. The Academie looks just like a typical, old store front in a typical, old Parisian building, yet its old and disheveled insides have been the setting for art classes since 1902. According to Wikipedia, "the school refused
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