The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 444

business Grove artist likes self portraits and teaching others to paint MIAMI-DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE SOUTH CAMPUS DEPARTMENT OF CONTINUING EDUCATION WESTCHESTER CENTER AT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL 3000 SW 87 Avenue SCHEDULE OF NON-CREDIT CLASSES Classes begin the week of March 13 1978 Classes 7 weeks (unless otherwise noted) Fees refundable only if student officially withdraws through the campus Department of Continuing Education prior to the second class meeting after the date of registration Schedule and fees subject to change For further information call 596-1 161 All instructional and advertising expenses related to these Continuing Education courses are paid from Continuing Education student registration fees Thomas Strickland sas he makes a good model He works free and always on time OLD BOOK BOOM 3117 l'OISCF I)F IFON BOLFFVAHO CORAL GARLFS FLORIDA 33131 415-9716 USED OUT of PRINT AND RARE BOOKS ANTIQUE PRINTS AND MAPS -APPRAISALS AND SEARCHES Mon-Sat PM WE BUY BOOKS By DOROTHY STEIN Herald Staff Writer Transforming a blank canvas into a work of art is the way Thomas Strickland regards his new venture as an art teacher despite his insis- tence that teach someone -how to be an artist" What the Coconut Grove painter professional for 25 of his 44 years means is he hopes the students who sign up for his first painting class will come to him with no formal background enabling him to start them off from scratch like blank things I teach are the things that can be taught" he says teach someone how to be an artist because you teach them how to feel only how to use the tools how to see things differently and hopefully how to appreciate" Strickland whose work is represented in more than 500 private and public collections and whose name appears in such volumes as Who in Who in Intellectuals" and of will teach a painting class Wednesday nights at The Village Art School 8245 SW 124th St It will be his first experience teaching other than privately More than anything else Strickland says he hopes to give to his students the ability to execute a good drawing which he says is the important hardest yet most teachable aspect of painting" many art teachers deal with art like a he says are too concerned with teaching philosophy of art and theories about painting instead of how to paint I realize that many people just want something relaxing to do and they want to end up with finished pictures they can hang on the walls not a bunch of unfinished works Those not turned on by paintings of lopsided cubes and random splotches will appreciate style which he describes as Romantic Impressionist in the manner of Renoir Degas and Rembrandt figures and are his specialties he says Self-portraits also are a favorite subject and since the time Strickland discovered the advantages of using himself as a subject being on time refraining from talking working for nothing and not having to take time to to a model he figures completed more than 3000 self-portraits a fact he hopes the Guinness Book of Records will someday acknowledge Like' Renoir near whose Cote d'Azur home Strickland lived for several years he says he tries to avoid the ugliness in his paintings on the theory that enough of that In the world as it is painting is supposed to express my feelings about people to other people and the beauty I see around me is what I care to he says I believe in the goodness of people why should I try to be something not to dwell on ugliness Qr An equal accessequal opportunity community college Spend the winter in a beautiful place burhome MAIL-IN REGISTRATION FORM REGISTRAR 8 OFFICE SOUTH CAMPUS 11011 104ih St Miami 33178 SrCPONCi ArF PRINT ou ukn Confnu ng Sducat'Ofl non e'ed thro ig an Of campjkM am Pale om YES QNO II ES layout Continuing fcOucation noufedtuode tnumperY l71 Nj eriJlitoUaitrurrtjasbhase1 PRIM) NM6 (iIpt tab) OPOf B-ttH "-W TfrtT 6 Al SfCURIIV NM4 85K Make your bright spot in vour life! You'll be surprised houf near fabrics can mate a room look completely different And you'll have somethiVvj'rt'af tyill last fbryaars What save on our desinner taln'o seconds even buy a feui days in flie sun' Trovidir you 5ti 1 1 want loo away I "ffr rwwn- Tt ng dati (orn bask to g'andoarpr la) id 0 lit ledenl 0plf IffilfU mi 0a opart to al) ft o' i4 raoa color or nairona or 1 I VAHATlSYOJRRkClAl 8ACK0RO INO? II YO'tR ETHNIC HSRiTAGC Amefi an Indian or A'aikin nat (0) A orPacllidiande'fO Buck(i) Vnit(0 oiry statj IfRftlT AQCftfc3Si ZlPv'OrltMMI TEifWtf- Ms rep thru (PtAiPRiNf) from tha act-0 1 of ti pieiM mi mformit on DAT8 OtAfiOM 9CHnglTlTlfl 0AY TlVl fc ftJjM HG ECU (Taildco total MClOHt 1 1 1 fai nrfl Ihtl'r ofrop Ui i ri(i or mor order jjAyiib ti) AS jAOf 1 COU fiftf i mi 1 10 Rtf tl 4f Off c4 3 Test Da a'fptoo ihtrp 4 fy i ot itia coi 9 ya a i i 0 1 )W oi'vaiy vuifd av tfifo ce Of I 4 tr to on O' bt'on in (J1- in- i i ItUOINT fiOHAtml 1h MIAMI HERALD Sunday Feb 26 1978 24.