Apparently y’all are rockin the positive thoughts!

Apparently y’all are rockin the positive thoughts! I posted the last post, watched some inspirational art:21 and marched myself into the studio. Now the painting is finished! Here’s hoping the commissioner likes it. Wow, “commissioner” makes it sound like I am a renegade NYC cop. That’s right: Serpico, artist and illustrator. Anywho… here’s the painting. 9 x 9″ watercolour called New Growth, featuring three grandchildren.

Well, this is the last weekend of holidays for me before the 7 month-long push until the end of my B.Ed. I am looking forward to seeing my Grade 2 class and program classmates again, but always feel like holidays give me a little taste of the way I should be living every day. I finally have some ideas and inspiration for new projects, some new materials I’d like to try and the time to read about other artists, illustrators and people generally more talented than me. I am hoping to finish up a little commission this weekend, but am at the most frustrating point in the project. There is almost always a point where things seem to be going terribly wrong and I should just start over. This is usually the point where I don’t want to keep working, thereby prolonging the “magic” of frustration. The piece I’m working on is a watercolour. Every time I work with watercolour I am reminded of how strange it is that, as mediums go, it is traditionally ranked pretty low on the totem pole of high art while being one of the least forgiving painting mediums available. Think positive thoughts for me people!