Wyatt's Musings — Process

I don’t want to lose my taste for doing.  At one time, America was considered a production-based society. We did things. Made things. Today we have transitioned into a consumer-based society.  We now buy things instead of making things. Shopping has become sport.

As a boy, if I complained about being bored from nothing to do, I was given a job to cure my boredom.  I’ve heard you can sometimes die of the cure. However, sometimes, the cure works.

I drew to entertain myself. It was obvious to my parents what I was doing,...

I’m in the middle of the painting and I am at a crossroads. I know what I should do. It is a risky choice. The painting is moving now and I can’t stay still and do nothing. I have to act. There is doubt in my heart. I never really know. I only believe. I need a broad area of paint. There will be no going back. It might make the painting but my fear worries it could destroy it. I can’t cling too much to certainty. Watercolor goes forward and does not stand still....