You Do Realize Your Eyes See?

I am teaching the self-portrait bust.  It is basically easy to train someone how to sculpt the self-portrait but is far harder to get him or her to understand how wonderfully he or she is made.  Perceived self-image is always a bitter foe to the fact that you have eyes that see.  The great joy is not that students successfully model a likeness of themselves but that they live in sincere gratefulness to Whom can bring the likeness to life.  My job is then successful because the thriving student will see their creative act as a means and method of saying, “Thank You!”