LEARNING TO PAINT

  

I held a brush

With nervous hand

And wondered.

Will I paint my will of

thoughts and feelings

so you see the real me?

Orange, yellow,

brown and green.

All mixed strokes

With anxious hand and heart.

At least it is a start.

I started to paint in 1983.

I lived in Hawaii that year and there was an old lady who invited me and some other ladies to come and learn to paint “On her lanai”.

I was all exited, but she actually did not teach us.  All she said was :”Just paint  what you see”.  Well, I did not see anything, but it was a beginning.  My first painting – in oils – was painting of sunflowers.

I loved to paint and have painted ever since.  After 25 years I changed from oils to acrylic paint since I lived in small spaces.

Here is one of my last paintings: