UFO : knitting : : incomplete : painting assignment
Analogies, do you remember them? Readers from the US will recall SAT's and GRE's. Those from Canada, the anti-standardized test country, might have learned about them in English class. I get to sit on the fence as very soon, I'll have lived in Canada for as long as I've lived in the US. Truth-be-told I believe in standardized testing, a holdover from my American education, Kindergarten through Master's degree.
I can attest to being a skilled knitter, but I'm still a watercolour painter who lacks confidence. Almost five years ago I started a snow painting for my sister's 50th birthday. Half done, there it sits. My excuse is that I haven't learned enough in painting class to complete it. I can honestly say I had given it my best, I just wasn't there yet. Today though, after my barns in winter class, I think I might have started to break through the snow painting barrier.
My time-line has been protracted (I think I recall that vocabulary word from one of those tests), but my goal is to follow through on my promised gift prior to her 60th.
I think I have a few knitting projects as well, that fit that bill, and bracelets in my beading box... Uh-oh I hear my ninth grade high school math teacher, Miss Lahrman's, haunting quote "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
I like it now! I have a small set of dishes and they all have different snow pictures by Robert Timberlake. The dishes are blue and white but the actual prints are colors. If you google him look for Late Snow at Riverwood - it's a really pretty snow picture - he has a lot of snow scenes. I do like your a lot - you're so talented and always learning something new.
Posted by: Margaret Smith | February 10, 2013 at 10:37 AM
I have faith in you that I will see my 50th Birthday gift before my 60th :) The Barn looks AWESOME!
Posted by: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1151034849 | February 11, 2013 at 05:01 AM
If that saying is true, we're all doomed! Your painting is incredible, just as it is.
Posted by: Dorothy | February 11, 2013 at 08:13 AM
That watercolor is only half done? It looks stunning as is. You've been hiding this talent from us!
Posted by: Kristen | February 12, 2013 at 04:18 AM
Well I think it's just beautiful, Li. It is very serene looking.
Posted by: Lynne | February 12, 2013 at 01:02 PM
Wow! You are gifted,
Can You send me a copyright of the herringbone rib scarf instruccions please?
Thank You!
Laura
Posted by: Laura ladrón de Guevara | February 12, 2013 at 04:54 PM
Li! Amazing watercolor. It far surpasses anything most of us could do, but I know it is easy to be your own harshest critic. Just know that it looks fantastic!
Posted by: Chancy | February 12, 2013 at 05:42 PM
I sincerely don't understand that you think you're not good enough! Get real and be proud of what you do!!! Love you.
Posted by: Lene Lonnov | February 14, 2013 at 01:42 PM