Coffee Pot, Oranges and Anxiety!

A good friend of mine is on an inspiring drawing course with the wonderful artist Melissa Becker. Having said to me privately only six weeks ago  "I can not draw anything, let's see what happens!" I was very surprised when she suggested a morning of art. Today we sat at my kitchen table and had a mini 'art class' of our own. We even went as far as challenging each other by setting up small still life compositions and just jumping right in with the drawing. At first I felt very nervous about putting anything on paper, with light strokes of my charcoal pencil I made some feeble lines. Then I thought ' blow it, lets just have fun!' suddenly the coffee pot came to life and the fears melted away. It was such a success that we're going to try it again, next time a landscape perhaps...then again maybe we'll wait for the advanced course before we tackle that!