![]() But he had a natural talent for it, Michael did.» So I thought maybe he might have picked it up from him. One of Michael’s classmates, Lori Shapiro: “I had the opportunity to be in school with him, tenth grade, that was the school in Encino with about ninety students, so I took an art class with him. I would watch him make these drawings, and then he’d ball them up and throw them away. ![]() I asked him one day, ‘I really love that Charlie Chaplin drawing, can I have that one?’ And he said, ‘Sure, go ahead and take it home and enjoy it’, but he didn’t sign it. So I got home, and my Dad said that should probably be signed, and he sent me back to school. And this … I really enjoy the picture of this woman, and I asked him who it was, and I could not remember the answer, but I had the opportunity to present these pictures to Jermaine Jackson, and he told me this looked like one of the tutors they’d go on tour with, when they weren’t in school, they had a tutor, and this looked like her.” I had him sign it, and he just picked up a crayon and signed ‘Michael Jackson’. Michael drawing Peter Pan at Helmsley Palace Hotel, New York CityIt is not known exactly with how many tutors the singer studied the art of drawing. David Nordahl, one of the artists from whom Jackson commissioned artwork for his Neverland ranch, shared memories about his relationship with the singer. In 1988, Jackson saw one of Nordahl’s paintings in Steven Spielberg’s office and called the artist to find out whether he gave drawing lessons. Nordahl declined initially due to high workload, but they soon became friends, and later Nordahl would leave all other projects to become Jackson’s portraitist and teach him the basics of drawing. Nordahl became not only Jackson’s favorite living artist (Michelangelo led the historic rating), but also his trusted advisor and confidant who designed Neverland carnival rides and joined family outings. They visited art galleries and private exhibitions together. And when Michael managed to carve some time between his numerous work projects, they studied the art of drawing.ĭavid Nordahl: “We practiced doing certain things with pencil and colored pencil, but Michael was a perfectionist and so he would get angry at himself if what he was trying to do didn’t work very well.
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