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In a previous email, I wrote about my friend Barbara and her new retirement hobby of making beautiful food presentations. I so admire her push to always be learning that I made a silk painting of her work. 

The good news is that I learned a lot from the process of creating the piece. The bad news is that I learned a lot because so much went wrong while I was painting it. 

I learned a lot about painting in general, and while I was at, I spent a great deal of time fighting with the medium because silk paint is poorly suited to the kind of painting I was trying to create. So I’ve decided to try out other paints. I’m taking a painting class and will be doing all of the exercises in watercolors, acrylics, and oils to see which one suits me best.

Onward!