Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School
Toulouse-Lautrec didn't take his models from classical academies; he chose prostitutes and bohemians, and I suppose if you squinted hard enough, you might
confuse a bourgeois Seattle burlesque girl with one of those hard-livers. So draw them. As they dance. And you might win prizes, which is not as good as immortality, but
better than being disfigured most of your life. (
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