Just before our last group art show, Robert Genn, on his bi-weekly email called Painter’s Keys, had a note about Post-Show Blues. Very a propos as it turned out. I thought that I probably would have very little down time as I had some new paints and new ideas to get going on. But it has really been tough getting going again. I particularly wanted to get back to doing some watercolours. and I think that because I have been away from them for quite some time as I focused on oil painting, I am really very rusty. So I will continue to work on this painting although I am really not sure where it will end up. Again, in one of the Painter’s Keys notes, Robert suggested that you try to finish what you start as you will learn from it even it it doesn’t end up being what you had hoped. I have done this in the past, and surprisingly, with persistence, sometimes it does work in the end. So I will plug away at it. I have had another idea though and will try that out, probably starting tonight.

I am playing around with the semi-abstract idea, that is, looking at things at very close range. When I do that, whatever it is just becomes colour blocks in an abstract way, but it is a real object or subject. Maybe it is the microbiologist in me – liking to look at things very closely.

So I just need to try some new things, splash some paint around, and be patient.

At this time of the year there is also the call of the garden. In spite of the cold slow start to spring this year, the yard is pretty well ready to go. And I have the majority of the fence stained which needed to be done before the gardens started to grow. So the slowness was useful in that regard. There have been so many butterflies and birds this year. Nice to see so much activity out in the back yard.

Well, just thought of another possibility, so off to check it out.