$15.99 changed my life!

sam flax… black sketch easel… $15.99… i have been reborn!

it all started tuesday night at my design theory class. wade was in the other room speaking to some people at AIGA and we, the nosy students decided to take a look around his studio. and then i saw it…. oh no, not the $15.99 easel… but just a whiteboard and a huge sketchpad on a much more EXPENSIVE easel. but all of a sudden it came to me, this may be the cure to my fear of sketching! sure, i’ve been holding my own here with sketching ideas, but half the time, it’s hard as hell for me to get that pen on paper. it’s like all of my ideas are just trapped in my head and can’t seem to transfer to the paper. could it be the fear of failure or the fear of looking incompetent? i dunno. what i do know is that as soon as I saw that sketchpad in a vertical position, it all made sense to me!

so the next day i went on an IMMEDIATE search for an easel… an economical one if possible… and there she was, the black sketch easel. well at first I couldn’t decide between the black or wood, but then i felt the black would fit my apt decor a bit better . and when i got that baby home, it was off to the races for me! well ok, i still did hesitate a bit to get my sharpie on the paper, but once i did, there was no stopping me!

so what was the secret? i really don’t know. now that i think about it more, it was the same with my tutoring back in the day… sitting down tutoring people used to bore me to DEATH!!! but put me in a room with a whiteboard and a marker and there were equations and graphs all OVER the place! so maybe it’s the “teacher” in me… people used to tell me i’d be a great teacher and seeing that i’m the direct descendant of a great one, then maybe that makes sense

all i know is that standing up sketching makes all the sense in the world to me and i can’t wait to see what great ideas I can get out for $15.99 now!