The compulsion to paint

New Year's Eve Tulips
watercolour and black marker on watercolour paper
8 1/2 x 11 inches
Barbara Muir © 2010

It's very late, and I've just finished a fast watercolour

sketch. I'd planned to do a quick charcoal sketch of
our table after the Christmas dinner was over. That's
right we had a second one tonight, and it was delicious.
But passing through the kitchen I saw that the
gorgeous tulips I bought for New Year's Eve are almost
finished and I had to try and capture a little of their
full blown beauty.

But now I'm heading off to bed.
I hope you had a lovely Sunday. I know I did.

Have a loving-the-first-week-of-the-New-Year day.