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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s
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63. relations, perspective and drawing; those fundamental factors of design, construction and composition. I was also being trained in attention and perception - that learning to discern and select - which too is of unknown value. Furthermore I was being directed in my own abilities in a development of my own technique and expression. Indeed I was continuing to learn the words, the grammar and the language of painting. My fingers were busy doing the thing they had always been craving to do; feeling and sensing the subjects which they were disclosing. So I should have been and was sublimely satisfied. I worked diligently, unceasingly and untiringly, and I am profoundly appreciative of the grounding in fundamentals which I there obtained. During this last year - as both faculty and as a graduate student - in that clammy climate of low altitude, with perhaps a lowered resistance from the winter before (but primarily - I suppose - because "a sinus" was fashionable at that time) I found myself with a debilitating autumn infection. There were weeks of languor and splitting-headaches. But the studies; the classwork; the thesis; and the housekeeping with a new husband, plus a few
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63. relations, perspective and drawing; those fundamental factors of design, construction and composition. I was also being trained in attention and perception - that learning to discern and select - which too is of unknown value. Furthermore I was being directed in my own abilities in a development of my own technique and expression. Indeed I was continuing to learn the words, the grammar and the language of painting. My fingers were busy doing the thing they had always been craving to do; feeling and sensing the subjects which they were disclosing. So I should have been and was sublimely satisfied. I worked diligently, unceasingly and untiringly, and I am profoundly appreciative of the grounding in fundamentals which I there obtained. During this last year - as both faculty and as a graduate student - in that clammy climate of low altitude, with perhaps a lowered resistance from the winter before (but primarily - I suppose - because "a sinus" was fashionable at that time) I found myself with a debilitating autumn infection. There were weeks of languor and splitting-headaches. But the studies; the classwork; the thesis; and the housekeeping with a new husband, plus a few
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