Left Neglected
“I finish and put my pencil down, satisfied. Heidi looks it over.
“You really are good,” she says.
“Did I get the whole cat?”
“No, but what you drew is far better than what I could do.”
“What did I miss?”
“The left ear, the left whiskers, and the left paws.”
I inspect the two sketches, going back and forth between the original cat and my cat. They look exactly the same to me.
“Oh,” I say, my voice dropping.
“But you got both eyes and the left sides of the nose and mouth, and most of the body on ...the left. This is really good, Sarah. You’re including so much more than you did when you first got here,” she says, shuffling through the pages of drawings I’ve copied so far this morning.
I have improved. But really good is a really big stretch. Charlie and Lucy could copy the whole cat. And I still can’t. And today is my last day.
Heidi places the next sheet on the table, an elaborately detailed picture of a city square populated with buildings, cars, people, a fountain, pigeons, far more complex than any picture I’ve been asked to replicate during my stay here.MoreLess
“You really are good,” she says.
“Did I get the whole cat?”
“No, but what you drew is far better than what I could do.”
“What did I miss?”
“The left ear, the left whiskers, and the left paws.”
I inspect the two sketches, going back and forth between the original cat and my cat. They look exactly the same to me.
“Oh,” I say, my voice dropping.
“But you got both eyes and the left sides of the nose and mouth, and most of the body on ...the left. This is really good, Sarah. You’re including so much more than you did when you first got here,” she says, shuffling through the pages of drawings I’ve copied so far this morning.
I have improved. But really good is a really big stretch. Charlie and Lucy could copy the whole cat. And I still can’t. And today is my last day.
Heidi places the next sheet on the table, an elaborately detailed picture of a city square populated with buildings, cars, people, a fountain, pigeons, far more complex than any picture I’ve been asked to replicate during my stay here.MoreLess
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