Sally

[Jean Kelly]

Hello again, There has been some resolution of my disasters. I spent the afternoon yesterday with Sally, and tried changing my perspective instead of trying to change her. She talked and expressed away while I only tried to see color and shapes instead of line. I put out my boxes of pastels ( I keep them in old check book boxes with a cushion of rice) and a supply of cheap paper in front of me. Then I got myself comfortable. If I lean in any way I can't breath, I need to breath so that became a priority!

I now have a collection of color and shapes, I know what they mean although they don't look like much to someone else. I also have a new gift from this experience. I have made a new friend.

I'm posting all this "stuff" for two reasons: First, where there is a will there must be a way. Problem solving skills are absolutely necessary for me to continue this work. Second, maybe someone reading this will get an inspiration or at least a chuckle out of the recording of "normal" life problems of a beginning portrait artist.

Jean