Pink Think: “Patience is the ability to idle your motors when you feel like stripping your gears.” – Barbara Johnson.
This past month, my twelve-year old daughter Sierra has been taking an art class under a professional artist in Salt Lake City, Jan Henderson. Sierra has chosen to draw a portrait of her four-year-old palomino paint horse, Raffiki, with colored pencils. It’s been a painstaking process of layering colors, and finally, this past week, Raffiki is coming alive on her paper.
There was a time in my life when I switched from writing fiction to painting because I was always impatient for results. What took me DAYS to write a scene, I could show in a painting in an instant. I didn’t have much success, however. I would base my paintings on a photo, but the copy never seemed to come alive. Little did I know that a good painting needs a lot of layers.
Just like good fiction. I’m not sure which is easier, to paint, or to write a scene, but I am discovering that both require lots of patience.
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i had private art-classes for a period of time, but i have very few works that i ever dared to frame and keep. seems to be just about the same for writing 🙂 and then there’s those few that just sit down and scribble out a masterpiece in their sleep and you want to beam them over the head with your board. tehehehe. glad to know i’m not the only impatient one in this craft. loves
Good for you, Paulette, taking art classes.
I would love to take art lessons myself. I’m really happy for my daughter having this opportunity.
Oh, is that my problem?
Yeah, I think it is.
I already have kids – why do I need a hobby that requires patience, too?
😉