

The picture took me months to do, and in fact, I didn't finish the work until very near the end of the school year. My roommate would then hand up my paints, and I could work for several hours at a stretch. By climbing up onto my bed and up the chairs, I could hoist myself onto the table, and lie in relative comfort two feet under my painting. Working with your arm over your head is hard work, so a few of my more ingenious friends rigged up a scaffold for me by stacking two chairs on my bed, and laying the table from the hall lounge across the chairs and over to the top of my closet. By standing on a chair, I could reach the ceiling, and I taped off a section, made a grid, and started to copy the picture from my art history book. “In the middle of my sophomore year at Kenyon, I decided to paint a copy of Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam" from the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of my dorm room. Additional Materials on e-reserve: On E-reserve at Zimmerman Library (password: study221)īill Watterson, author of Calvin & Hobbes, from his 1990 Kenyon College Commencement Address:.The Elements of Style, 4th Edition, Strunk & White.Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft, 2nd Edition Janet Burroway.Office Hours: T 2:00 – 3:30 and by appointment.Greg Martin, Associate Professor, English English 221 : Introduction to Creative Writing
