breaking the spell

i am the world's worst oil painter- no joke! so, you can imagine my delight when i discovered that i could successfully handle watercolor paints. this discovery gave me a genuine confidence in myself as an artist. i took on the role as a painter, meanwhile receiving support from a very wise, very talented professor. 
--thank you, n.l.h. your encouragement moved me.


it's interesting (but not surprising) that i haven't picked up a paintbrush all summer or yet this fall, because when i was in school i was always complaining about "never having enough time to do my own artwork" and then, when the time was given to me i became artistically idle. 
--(was that a major run-on sentence? i can't decide.)


i'm going to break the spell today... because if not today, then when?

rosa park circle,  grand rapids, michigan