I saw someone today who is an artist and a teacher and I was so excited to tell her about this online watercolor class I’m taking. I showed her some of the iPhone pictures of the first week’s lessons. And she said something like, ‘it looks like you’ve always done this.’
Not – how wonderful (although she made lots of nice noises). Not – how interesting (although she asked some very specific questions about how different techniques were done).
We talked for just a few minutes about how trying a different medium can shake everything up. She looked at my stuff and I found myself saying, well, this stuff is the same as what I do with quilting in terms of the shapes and patterns.
As the words came out of my head, it gave me a big ah ha moment.
I love this sort of thing – a little conversation that opens some big doors.
