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In reply to the discussion: The Friday Afternoon Challenge for your beautiful minds: The Art of the Altarpiece! Part I. [View all]calimary
(81,220 posts)I swear, church art is what kept me in church. SOOOOOOooooo much to look at, study, meditate upon. I LOVED looking at the way fabric was rendered. The folds and wrinkles and drapery - I drew A LOT when I was in school. Always drawing. Most of it holy subjects like the saints, the martyrs, the Madonna and Child, Nativity scene, angels, cherubs, clouds, the Madonna without Child, what-have-you. Drawing drapery and fabric wasn't that easy for me, so I'd study it during Mass. Same for musculature, perspective, foreshortening, physical proportions, composition, movement, scenery, animals, and more. Just loved to draw. I still have a callous on my middle finger where the pencil always was braced when I held it. Always had a dark smudge along the heel and outer edge of my right hand where it rested on the drawing and got pencil marks and shadowing and other smudges on it. All through school. I'd just get lost in it.