It's a start

start
Originally uploaded by Sparklypear.

I have a painting show in a week - ha!
It seems I developed a bad habit in art school- It seems I liked to have fun and live life and go out...and then when it was portfolio time- cram all art making into a week.

and.. well i'm still doing it now- 8 years later...I really should just paint on a contnuous basis, I'd probably get pretty good- you know the old mantra- practice makes perfect.

Well I decided to challenge myself this time and paint landscapes- not just any landscapes - the landscapes I saw on my last trip to the ol Highlands of Scotland.

This one here is far from finished - and as I have never done landscapes before - i'm not sure entirely where it is going - but it won't look like this.

Anywho, when I do finally start painting - i remember how much i love it and how it so meditative- slows my breathing down. I listen to my favourite music and eat paint- no not really. I don't eat paint - that's a little cuckoo :)

alrighty- back to it- i just wanted to chronicle this for myself - see where it was- and where it will go.