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About
The task of a great teacher is to see potential and “to draw it out”. The student simply needs to pay attention and to trust one’s brilliant self.
Join Glenn Vilppu on this journey but be careful: the man has a track record of changing lives. A year ago he changed mine. Again. A year ago I asked my drawing teacher and uncle a question about a single line in a Renaissance drawing. He went outside to find a stick to draw with and that day taught me a life lesson that started this film.
My name is Laura Belevica and I am making a documentary about a legendary teacher, a man who never stops drawing, learning and sharing. This film attempts to explain the legacy of a single individual - this Drawing Guy who has changed the lives of so many.
Inspired by his most famous words “no rules, just tools”, the film begins with a simple goal - to capture love. There is a lot of love in Glenn’s life. Love from countless students. Love for art, for teaching, and for lifelong learning. Not to mention the love of his life Eleanor.
Together they travel the world to teach art as an essential tool of communication and drawing as visual thinking: an act of pure self-expression, a transmitter of emotion: a process of becoming, not achieving.
Start with a stick, a single line. Express truth and be vulnerable. Create without judgment. Have fun while doing it!
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“Glenn has taught us how to see and think and experience the world around us before we ever put a mark on paper. “ Don Hahn