It’s never too late to learn.
I thought I would start writing a blog about my experience of learning to paint in my senior years. It may inspire someone else to give it a try and discover the joy in discovering you can do something you never thought you could.
When lockdown started I wondered what I was going to do with my time. Like everyone else, basically imprisoned in my own home, albeit in a lot better situation than a lot of other people, because I live in a very rural area and had access to my large garden and extensive views across a very picturesque Welsh valley.
A friend of mine suggested I take up painting. I have never been an artist and thought I didn’t have an artistic bone in my body. I started with watercolour, progressed to acrylics, then pastels. I was amazed at what I was able to achieve.
This is an example of a painting of a friend’s dog that I recently produced in pastels.
I’m not sure what else to write in this first blog but if anyone would like to comment and suggest what I should write in my next one please do so.
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Thats really good merched
that’s very impressive! I’m also doing some paintings now that more physical things are becoming more difficult and boring. Mine are mathematical paintings though, I post up the first one when I’ve framed it.
Amazing. It sounds impossible. Did you draw or paint before in your life?
I had never painted before; roseinbloom. I’ve just started using oils. Nothing like a challenge, I’m trying to paint a double portrait of my daughter-in-law and granddaughter.
I used to paint in watercolour but have not taken up the brushes for a few years due to the hassle of clearing up and putting it away afterwards, shortage of time due to being a Carer for my wife who has Alzheimers. The drawing of the dog is very good, now keep going and hopefully you will find how relaxing it is.