So my friend Cam went on a short holiday for moon festival and while he was gone, I watched his room and fed his fish and turtles. As a gift for this incredibly difficult task, he brought me back watercolour paints, brushes and paper. As I looked at all these art supplies I thought to myself "Wow, Cam's gone totally crazy".
Outside of my martial arts, I don't spend a lot of time expressing my creativity. Actually outside of Kung Fu I don't really have a lot of creativity. I was almost dreading our date to paint this Thursday. I had no inspiration, I was so scared I would just end up staring at a blank piece of paper for an hour. So during lunch, I was telling some of my friends about the dreaded painting, and a friend, Jon, suggested I paint his portrait. I laughed really hard and sort of shrugged off the idea but by the time lunch was over I had decided to do it.
Cam and I spent hours sitting on the floor of his room, just playing around with the watercolours and by the time we were finished I had painted four pictures. Now, I don't claim that any of them are masterpieces but I was really shocked and amazed at how much fun I had. I did paint a portrait of Jon and today I gave it to him. And although obviously not done by a professional, he really enjoyed it. I actually had some other people ask me to paint portraits of them. I've found a side of myself that I never knew was there and a way to share it with other people... Very exciting!
