August 14--Painting is FUN!!

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.  --Richard Rohr

    I'm working on a large (24"x36") painting. I am most comfortable painting straight lines and using copious amounts of Green Frog Tape. This is my most recently completed work:

    The new painting is quite "outside my box." I've watched a bunch of "how to paint" videos, and I am learning a lot. I am, nevertheless, still very anxious. I'm not Van Gogh, and I have no such aspirations, but some part of me thinks I should be. Some of my angst probably relates to the fact that this painting is intended to be a gift. It is personally representative of the things that the recipient and I enjoy together. I want it to be meaningful to the two of us, and nothing else really matters. 

    So I remind myself... painting is FUN, otherwise, why bother!?!?

        Leta