Wednesday, November 9, 2022 Thankful

Well, at least we won’t be confronted with political ads for awhile. We can all bow our heads in thankfulness for that, right?

Moving along, I came back from our extended time away with a renewed zeal to finish the watercolor painting course that I started in January. I sort of rushed through the last two projects. In fact, for the last one (“Oh, Deer!”) I couldn’t even be bothered to trace the original drawing onto my watercolor paper – I just eyeballed it, did a rough sketch and said to myself, “Good enough for rock and roll!”

I should explain that saying. We went to a concert years ago at which one of the performers was a guy from the rock band, Petra. He was tuning his guitar and after a moment declared, “Good enough for rock and roll!” I’ve taken that motto on for whenever I don’t feel like I need to strive for absolute perfection on something. In other words, most of the time. I’m more of a corner cutter. Sometimes it works out well, and other times…

“Owl Be Seeing You.” I didn’t name these, by the way. I’m glad you can’t see the original.

“Oh, Deer!” Looking at my rendition, it would really be more aptly titled “Oh Dear!” Something happened to the deer’s back that I can’t explain. And also the trees. But on the positive side, I got the first really good explanation of how to use masking liquid when painting.

Now it’s time to get back to my big project “A Year at Providence Place.” It’s been hard to recover from being gone for three weeks right after the first month.

If this post isn’t good enough for rock ‘n’ roll, I’ll go ahead and delete it in the morning.