#270 Heron 12/30/19

Here we are with just 2 days left in 2019 and it is quite obvious I will not make my 300 painting quota.  Ahhhh, youth!  I was so naive in 2018 to think it could be done.  But I will forgive myself and keep moving toward it, even though it will be a bit late.  This is something that happens when youth is over, forgiveness comes easier.  So, even though I'm tempted to try Red Bull for the first time and see if I can power through 30 paintings in the next two day...I will not. 

Tonight I got out some 3x4 inch wrapped canvases from my stash....very cute, 3/4 inch thick.  In the house we vacation in sometimes up in Michigan, is a beautiful painting of a blue heron.  It's big, it's in the living room.  I salivate over it.  It looks like it flowed out of the artist's hands in minutes.  My tiny heron here took more than minutes....it took me a while to get the beak and eye to look right.  But the rest of it went down in minutes.  I tried too to get a bit of reflection at the feet of the heron since he's standing in shallow water.  Someday, I will paint a giant heron painting and it will hang in someone's vacation house on the water somewhere.  Ahhhhh, youthful thoughts!