Visual Arts

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you truly love. It will never lead you astray.”
~Rumi

In one of my existential moments, it occurred to me that all of the things I was saving to do in retirement would not get done if I died before I retired.  The “WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!” thought sank deep into my viscera.  In that same period of time, I realized I had been teaching science for a long time, and my foray into yoga had taught me to always keep a beginner’s mindset in everything I was doing, to stay curious and mindful. I was observing how difficult chemistry is for first-time learners and wanted to force myself to try something difficult as a true beginner to put myself in the position my students were in.  As luck would have it, once I started looking for something, I met Scott Ruthven, an oil painter, who told me he was going to present a beginning oil painting au plein air and invited me to the course. I jumped in with full enthusiasm and failed miserably time after time, painting after painting, until the failures became less common and paintings that said what I wanted them to say were being made.  

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