Are you seeking security or adventure?

This blog is supposed to be about me finishing a watercolour after four months. But then my blog host put this teasing question on my admin page . I can answer the question with this painting. After four months of doodling I thought I was done. You could say, I was secure that enough was enough. But the minute the finished photograph was taken I knew that security was never going to work for this string bag of windfall apples.  The leaves are not bold enough, the leaves are going on an adventure. The leaves are going bolder. Flakes of gold leaf are going to make the leaves sparkle.

There was never a plan to paint windfall apples in a string bag. I just wanted something to paint in a meditative way while talking at an artists social gathering.

First coloured orbs appeared.

Then the string bag.

The arrival of the string bag somehow turned the orbs into bruised and imperfect apples.

And that should have been that, but the leaves are all wrong so the August gathering of art natterers will see me possibly  adventuring too far with this picture. It could go well . It may not.

In my search for creative adventure I could be…

Gilding the Lily.

Saturday pondering, it is often a surprise to me how a blog will end and sometimes even the beginning takes me unawares.