“Reviving My Sketchpad” struck me as a great title for where I am at
in life. Today, I am 57 years old and
have now gotten beyond most of the wonderful chaos challenges of
raising kids and letting go…(most of the time). Talking with a friend recently,
he asked what my interests are and that got me thinking…me have a
personal interest? When did those thoughts disappear? Marriages?
Babies? Schools? Then I began to see through the cobwebs of
my mind to a time that I sketched,
did watercolors and oil paintings. I also recalled the piece of serenity the artwork blessed me with in moments of life’s
confusing times.
Anyway, I came up with the sketching with watercolors thought
because centuries ago, I majored in Art
and had a desire to draw, sketch and watercolor
all of my life. I loved attempting to
recapture something I had seen or was currently looking at. I thought the idea of a fond memory on canvas
or sketchpad was much more wonderful to have ‘hanging’ around.
Over time, I have found
myself, while traveling, looking at beautiful landscapes, trees, flowers,
basically anything and think, “Wow, what an interesting scene to sketch or watercolor”. I like the idea re-creating the beautiful
colors I see in the sky through using watercolor
sketching. My head would lead me
into fantasizing the pictures and brilliant ideas all from just seeing a
sunset. Then my mind would say, “Aww, you will get started and then never
finish” or “You don’t have time!” So I
would ease into allowing my lifestyle of busy-ness shove my sketching and watercoloring desires aside.
Well, ya know what? It’s now or never! Now, it is my opportunity to revive those dusty talents and begin
learning the new watercolor
sketching techniques offered today. There are several artistic sketching techniques that have my
attention and, besides, I am ready to re-discover that ole’ ‘artist in waiting’ again.
I am looking forward to
getting familiar once more with the various opportunities through art offered
by different mediums of choice. I hope
you will give me feed back, direction and challenges as we take this trek
together!
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