Blue on Blue

I have been experimenting with photographing  objects around the house. My wife asked me to pick up some sunflowers for her. They are so beautiful. The vase I picked up at a thrift store for a couple of dollars, the blue and white one was a dollar or so more. I have been stalled in my creating. My current illness makes it difficult to sit down and draw. Drawing really does require concentration. I can use the camera and just document what appeals to me but drawing and using my expressive writing requires more concentration than I currently have. I get so frustrated that my drawing is not pleasing to me. I used to be quite good at it, relatively speaking. Andrew Wyeth can draw. His father, N. C. Wyeth was an accomplished draftsman.  The illustrator Trina Schart Hyman was nice enough to correspond with me for a little while. She was so good that she won the Caldecott award for her children's book "St. George and the Dragon." My dream was to be an illustrator like Trina. Art school required more self-confidence than I possessed. It required a self-assurance that I lacked. My grades were excellent, my draftsmanship received excellent critiques from instructors. But I just did not believe that I could compete with other students... Hopefully in the next couple of days creativity will rear its head. I learned a while back that  if I cut my watercolor paper I will do the work. I have a work in the planning stage: William Cowper's poem "Light Shining in the Darkness." It is  very famous: "The Lord works in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform." Cowper (pronounced Cooper) lived from 1721 to 1800. He struggled with major depression most of his life. (I understand what that is like.) He had to be hospitalized several times, he just was not able to function with the conditions of the time...
     Hope you have a great weekend. God Bless. Dale
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