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I havn't really told you much about school, what I do during daytime, so I thought I could write something about that.

Yet another Monday: return to school and my regular Monday classes: "séminaire: Faire l'histoire" and "peinture".
For peinture we have spent the whole first part of the semester painting in black and white with charcoal, a technique I've never done before. You have to use paper size at least A1 and start by color it completely in black from which you subtract the black with brushes and clots. Everything is based on copying large black and white prints of famous paintings (just like the old masters used to do themselves when they went to painting school or something...). You select a piece of the print and reproduce it in at least the same size as the picture but preferably larger to make it slightly more diifficult. The course is lead by Monsieur Secherret, a French painter himself, he is quite picky and spends a lot of time measuring in our paintings (so that everything is in its right position). It's hard to get a compliment from him, I got a short "c'est mieux" last session when I finished another painting and some sort of growl for this one (above).
Next time we are arctually going to get to touch real oil colors, if you would have been here you would have heard my voice dripping of sarcasm...