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Obata - The Art Professor
The sumie, or a japanese ink and brush style of painting. Obata taught his students that to capture the essence of what you are painting, you first need to become calm before you even touch brush to paper. Your mind should be as tranquil as the surface of an untouched lake. Your posture must be straight and tall, and your breath should move with your brush. What he had to do first was tob come from a place of deep concentration. He also really impressed his travelling companions, one of them an art professor named worth rider. Worth rider saw that, oh, we could probably hire him for usee berkeley. And so he was the one who really introduced ob