Mixing it up

Apples on a fancy dish
watercolour on Arches watercolour paper
with black marker
Barbara Muir © 2009
(once again I'm getting yellow bounce
light on the paper from our yellow walls.
The drawing
is far from perfect, but it makes
me happy.)

I've taught change management in the past, and when I teach
college courses they are all about change -- changing the way
people feel about life, school, reading, helping students get
with the program. But in my own life I find change is
difficult. Juggling more than one style, or project, or
even medium is not my normal way to go. It's true
that we change anyway whether we want to or not --
every cell in our body replenishes itself, so that in a way
we are always new. I feel the force of that statement this
year. I feel new because of my friendships
on the blog, and the marvels that the technology has brought
into my life.

Where am I going with this? Downstairs to finish the little
watercolour I'm posting. I feel very happy, because after a couple
of months of worry about a portrait project I want to do, I've
begun it. Sometimes the worry may just be a thought process, as
though a painting cooks in your head before you can get
it out on the canvas. In that case, my whole new self of today
seems ready to take it on. Lots of self talk, and the distraction
of mixing it up with this little watercolour did the trick.
Thanks for your belief in me, your wonderful art, and
your praise which is always a boost to my brand new today
spirit.

Have an enjoying-your-own-new-self day.