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3:59 PM, Thursday November 17th 2022

Again - it's not about length.

Texture often requires more control in tight spaces, which is better handled by the wrist, but there are certainly still textural circumstances - fur for example - that will benefit from the kind of fluidity we can achieve from the shoulder. In normal practice many of these cases would be fine to handle with the elbow, but that is not permitted in this course, because we are specifically pushing students to get more comfortable with their shoulder due to it being an area students have less opportunity to develop naturally. The goal is for students to be comfortable enough with their shoulder that they won't be prone to just doing everything with their elbow because it's that much more familiar.

4:46 PM, Friday November 18th 2022

Okay. Are you saying that within DAB fine texture can be done with the wrist, but anything that could be done with the elbow should be attempted from the shoulder?

11:41 PM, Friday November 18th 2022

That is correct.

9:14 PM, Saturday November 19th 2022

Okay, thanks.

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