I learned basic art techniques in my freshman (1st) year of high school. The teacher's name was Mr. King. It's surprising I can remember a name from 1974, but I can't remember a name from last week! Anyway, he taught the basic art class and it's there that I first learned how to sketch landscapes. I lived in Hawaii at the time and it was a multiracial school including students of Hawaiian, Filipino, Portuguese, Guamanian, Samoan and Japanese ancestry, with a few mainland white people like my family thrown in for good measure. It was like a mini-melting pot, if you'd like to call it that.

Read the rest of this entry »