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know whether that's the real thing or the name of a "Kate". Haha!
My work's going pretty well now, but I am awfully sick of the school. Have got about all Tarbell will give -- he could give more, but he's stingy -- and could darn well like to beat it now if I hadn't just paid my tuition. I don't mean by that that I won't get any good out of the remainder of the year at school -- I will -- but I could really learn a lot more now and do infinitely better painting if I were on my own. 
Just models, posed for a whole bunch to paint, aren't very interesting to do, so I have changed my method of working there somewhat, and try to study out the subtleties of light and shade without much thought of what is beautiful. All the rest of the class have had two or three times my experience painting nudes, but I think I am up with them now. I know I get my stuff better lighted than anybody else -- and it carries.