Love this part, Lee. I will be looking forward to the next one. Now that I look back, some of my strictest teachers with their unusual ways had the most profound influence on me. I hope things look up for Nikki, if not with her step father, at least with her art.
You yanked be back decades to high school when an art teacher grabbed my in-progress drawing and tore it up. To this day, that makes me angry. It was a good drawing. It just wasn't quite what he had wanted me to do. And later in a prestigious art school, I took 3 semesters of human figure drawing with 3 different instructors. The first one, thankfully, started us with understanding the human skeleton and then the muscles. Sounds here, though, like Nikki has some adventures of a very different kind ahead. Hmmm...
How interesting that you had a similar experience. My Mr. Cigam doesn't have much empathy, but you're right; he does have a mission other than being a heartless art teacher. Thanks for the visit and the comment!
Love this part, Lee. I will be looking forward to the next one. Now that I look back, some of my strictest teachers with their unusual ways had the most profound influence on me. I hope things look up for Nikki, if not with her step father, at least with her art.
Great second part of your story. I'll be curious to see what happens in art class next.
I do wonder what would have happened if she’d finished that rat…
I’ll tell you next week!
You yanked be back decades to high school when an art teacher grabbed my in-progress drawing and tore it up. To this day, that makes me angry. It was a good drawing. It just wasn't quite what he had wanted me to do. And later in a prestigious art school, I took 3 semesters of human figure drawing with 3 different instructors. The first one, thankfully, started us with understanding the human skeleton and then the muscles. Sounds here, though, like Nikki has some adventures of a very different kind ahead. Hmmm...
How interesting that you had a similar experience. My Mr. Cigam doesn't have much empathy, but you're right; he does have a mission other than being a heartless art teacher. Thanks for the visit and the comment!