{"id":7987,"date":"2013-12-19T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T17:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=7987"},"modified":"2015-05-05T14:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T21:33:36","slug":"free-learning-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2013\/12\/19\/free-learning-resource\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Learning Resource"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first started painting I wanted to stop everything and go back to school. The amusing thing is that, after many years of part time studying and class taking, I was just completing a masters degree . . . in a whole different area (“Leadership!”). But no matter, art had hit, and as Vincent Van Gogh once wrote to brother Theo, “Art rather takes over.”<\/p>\n

But, I was still mega-involved in my full life. I hardly had time to paint, much less go back to school. Nor, for the moment, could I even find a class in any local community college that fit my schedule or interest or my particular level. So, what to do?<\/p>\n

Then I remembered the library.<\/p>\n

Of course. The library! Thank you Ben Franklin for thinking of it. And thank you county elders for putting one in my town.<\/p>\n

Actually they’re easy places to get lost in, forests of every tree imaginable and engrossing paths between with fellow discoverers quietly probing or whispering. Full of wonder.<\/p>\n

For books on art I just look for the oversize section, with pictures.<\/p>\n

Besides the historical stuff, there’s plenty for beginners. At first I just needed to know what color to make a shadow. “Blue,” I learned. (That’s simplistic, shadow color being complex physics; but it got me started.)<\/p>\n

Besides the introductory sources, I also checked out books on the masters. Why not be inspired by those at the same time?<\/p>\n

The beautiful thing about books is that everything that’s been learned is in them. AND it’s generally EXPERTS who are writing them. These<\/em> are the people to learn from . . . not just anybody, the ones who have something to say! Why not take advantage?<\/p>\n

Furthermore, with a book, you can skip around, searching out the answer to your specific question. It’s a great way to take charge of your own education!<\/p>\n

So, it was another discovery of how to learn anything new, mid-life, in the midst of a full schedule and with no classes available anyway.<\/p>\n

Nor does this even consider the availability of Internet and the endless availability of material, including free demonstrations by artists of every level. It’s all knowledge free for the taking.<\/p>\n

So, get out your library card and open your brain. It’s free. And it’s fun.<\/p>\n

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All the information you need is probably in a book somewhere, and that book might be right down the street, ready to be loaned. And it’s all free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7987"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10686,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7987\/revisions\/10686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}