, written by Elaine Moss. However her first foray into making images for children had started earlier than this —"by accident", as part of a school assignment., in 1977. Tying in with Baker's themes of exploration and imagination, it followed a girl playing and dressing up in her grandfather's"junk shop".
Baker is best known, however, for her depictions of nature, starting in the1970s and early 80s with domestic and urban settings — a grandmother's overgrown garden or pigeons in a city park. In 1975 she moved to Australia, spurring her interest in wild spaces and environmental issues. During research for Where the Forest Meets the Sea , Baker camped out alone in the Daintree rainforest, sleeping on the ground in a plastic sheet.
Further, incompetent fools routinely win art prizes and 'awards' (because they're judged by pompous idiots) and deprive the genuinely capable of a living.
Moreover, roughly 1 in 10 people can be taught to draw accurately from life. Less than one in a million have any comprehension of colour technique. It's encouraging to see from the Young Archies that kids are at least getting some idea of it from video games.
Rubbish. Copying is and always has been the only way to learn technique and confirm one's ability. 'Experimenting' i.e. blindly playing with art materials, is what those devoid of talent do.
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