sophie
@sophemera
light weaver, dream builder, love gardener
My post about my childhood made a lot of people mad, who then offered strong opinions about how a child should actually be raised. I think most of them are wrong. New post (link below)
New blog post about the childrearing protocol my parents used. Link below
... progress pics of the art-tech projects at the PRISM Preview event! seeing everyone's work come to life was magical
this past winter was a memorable one for prism <3 [a thread] a lil bit late, but here’s a recap of everything we've been up to this past term:
four weeks ago, if you sat me in front of a live model with a couple of tubes of paint i would probably have panicked! now i can do this in eight hours spot the differences from yesterday :)
last week of paris portrait studio! the light is finally speaking to me
last week of paris portrait studio! the light is finally speaking to me

paris portrait studio day 4: i'm starting to understand what it means for drawing to be sculpting, like every time I add charcoal i'm chiseling into the paper, and every line of chalk lifts it into the light (4.5 hr pose)

paris portrait studio day 3: tried charcoal only, was out of my comfort zone and grumpy about it! much less control. but the lovely model liked it in the end

day 2 of paris portrait studio: working on the flow and faithfulness of my line

the pilot program I ran at Schoolhouse just launched:
Sal Khan’s new Dialogues program teaches students how to have civil, thoughtful discussions f-st.co/t2ypQ5T