SINCE childhood, I have enjoyed the mundane household tasks. Among these is cleaning any GLASS – like windows and mirrors – or polishing wooden surfaces. I have even been known to clean BRASS candlesticks. Nothing satisfies quite like a task with a clear beginning, middle, and end. And a visible result? Well, that’s a real treat. So different from graduate school or the rest of my work life, which seemed to be a bottomless pit of effort.

Georg’ann

Dancing with a paintbrush
is NOVEL. Watercolor class,
first art lessons since 6th grade.
Density and form, light, shadow,
angle of the brush. Subtleties.
Used the SCRAP practice
sheet as a postcard. Not TRASH
these rose colored lines
thin and thick softly sweeping
side to side, not precise.
Fluid yet distinctly spaced.
Unlike the dried GRASS rendering.
Layers of color melding.
Brush strokes flicked or dabbed
to create sunlight at the tips
of a BRASS hued field.

Heather