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Cat Strazzeri's avatar

This is another written gem! I felt like I was right there in the class seeing everything. So good Toby. Drawing people takes a lot of learning +talent. Keep up the good work!

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Toby Neal's avatar

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Debbie Dale Blackwell's avatar

Very interesting- are you an aspiring artist or is it 100 percent learning experience- the writing is great!

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Toby Neal's avatar

I AM An aspiring artist! I plan to draw and paint a lot more when I'm "retired " whatever that ends up looking like. But as a therapist and writer currently, learning new things and reflecting as I do is part of my process

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Maile's avatar

Another little gem! I am smitten with your turns of phrase. Especially love the "backlit gecko ribs" which sound like something on the menu at a local restaurant here in Hawaii, and the "noble bones" which will no doubt someday be the name of a grunge band from Seattle, though I don't know what grunge is, yet think it might have something to do with musicians who wear Pendelton shirts and have greasy stringy hair that gets in their eyes and the fact that Seattle (due to its unending gloomy weather and the fact that my grandmother was born there) is the suicide capital of the country once known as the "United States" which is surely not the case anymore!

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Toby Neal's avatar

Learning to see what's really there has many applications, not just to the representational arts. Mahalos for the share and compliment.

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