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When you’re teaching
six to ten year olds art,
the biggest hurdle
is the concept of
what you know
and what you see.
You take them out to the field,
finding an ample vantage point,
clip boards and sturdy paper
at the ready of sharpened pencils,
and tell them to draw
what they see, not what they know.
Then use works to show
how one piece leaned
more on known—
the far house was identifiable
as a structure—
but wasn’t quite what we see.
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