Well, after my last post on the "blind contour" exercise, I decided to Google "blind artist" and what do you know, up comes a website about someone who was just that, a blind artist.
Now as amazing as that seems, that a person could or would attempt to draw or paint as a blind person the story gets even more interesting when you find out that this artist didn't learn to draw or learn to paint until after she
lost her sight.
Lisa Fittipaldi learned to draw and paint only after she had sadly lost her vision or should I say sight. You see Lisa is one of a rare breed who definitely have vision even thought her ability to see with her eyes is now gone. So it would be unfair to say that she has no vision, for surely it takes incredible
courage and vision to try to do something as challenging as learning to draw without eyesight.
If you read about her story on he website at, www.lisafittipaldi.com/Artinterviews.htm you will see that further to my idea that anyone can learn to draw is not really all that far fetched.
I did meet another person the other day who assured me that he could NOT be taught to draw. After reading about Lisa and her amazing accomplishment (I still don't understand how she does it) I would have to fall back on my firm belief that if anyone is willing no matter what the circumstances, they can learn to draw too.
More next time.
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