Well, between weddings and guests and grownup children (bless you guys!), I have been absent from this blog for a good while. Since my last posts I have completed (and had expensively framed since I don' t trust myself) a large New Mexico watercolor: Mountains and sky, sky and Mountains. Ah, home.
I am putting it above the fireplace. The previous work over the fireplace was a Herd, which went to my son and his new wife as a wedding gift. They have enshrined it about their own fireplace, and it is a beauty. While I was waiting for my own work to be framed, it smuggly gazed down on me as if to say, "Top this!" which, of course, I can' t. But never mind. It is at its new home and my work, now magnificently framed, is ready to take its place. And I don' t think it looks half bad.
Since that painting, I have framed another myself, and done a few sketches down in the Hill Country around Llano and Mason. And read a bit here and there. My next painting trip is a week in NM, which I am looking forward to. My husband will fish (of course) and I will paint (of course).
Still, the books with their demonstrations seem to be doing some good, and I am also acquiring skills as a drawer, even though I haven' t done a detailed drawing for its own sake in eons, until this morning. I think I am finally getting so I can "see" and simplify.
The main thing is, through all the craziness, not to give up even when time and failure loom, but to go at it again later or start all over again.
For whatever it is worth.
