Doing what I do

 After the wedding

Watercolour and marker

on Arches watercolour paper

6 x 10 inches

Barbara Muir © 2012

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(The day after Megan and Christopher's

wedding we had lunch in a lovely

restaurant in Wellington, Ontario

called East & Main.  They do

not have checkered placemats, but

 beige, woven mats.  The artist

needs some colour.  The tomato

and cheese salad in the background

is sooooo good.)

What I do is paint.  You know that.  Everything
else I do gets squeezed in between painting and
painting.  We painters are more than a little crazy.
We not only do this strange job, but we make up
all sorts of rules about how to do it, and how to
succeed at it.  Then we elect the gods of our craft
(and that's true of all the arts) and we revere those
people.  Meanwhile we keep on keeping on painting.
It is such a part of our painting lives.  If you're
reading this and you don't paint, don't be envious.
Maybe you obsess about something else --
building fences, or writing poems, or living the
good life.  For us, it is the paint, what makes the
paint do what we want to do.  That's our day-to-day
call --how can we make that paint follow our
thoughts, or our thoughts follow the paint, and
ultimately when can we paint again.  I'm going to
bed.  I'll paint again tomorrow.

Have a doing-what-you-do day.