"VOLUME?", says I
...what does he mean by that???

Did I go ask him what he meant by that? Hell NO!!! I made for the library and started looking in the Glossaries of a art texts under "volume". ( This is what people did before the advent of the World Wide Web...before Altavista and yahoo...God! thoses were arcain times!!!). Be that as it may. Anyway, I quickly figured out that volume was all about dark and light and I fixed what was wrong with my drawings...and then Charles and I started getting along.

I took Painting II with Charles. My weirdo-surrealist self naturally began to emerge. Though, here again we had problems, I'd be working on this or that element in a painting and he'd come along and show me how he'd do it...(I mean: he'd paint right on my painting) ..then I erase what he'd done and paint something entirely different. then he'd come back and, nearly in shock, wonder how I could be so foolish as to erase his masterwork from MY painting. I thought "how" and "why" was quite simple. It was MY painting...good or bad. continued...