Art

Waldo Emerson said “every artist was first an amateur “ In my case I was first an amateur and remain one.  Oh I can do good whales at a very long distance.  As long as they are just dots in a sea of blue.  I reckon I can do that and keep the colours inside the lines.  That’s about the extent of it really.
Not Merril though.  She is a good artist.  She is so talented it makes me sick….I mean I am happy for her.  She has some art work hanging on my brothers wall.  When we were on holidays she did a small painting. I was just in awe.  It is really one of those things she does not get around to but when she puts her hand to it she is good.
A Joshua Renolds said, “a room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.”  I do like that.  I look around the room I am in and the walls are hung with pictures.  Some we had and some we were given.  A mate was downsizing and had a mile of pictures he was giving to the salvo’s or the like. Merril and I went through them and grabbed some.  One apparently was insured for $1,000.  Go figure.  It was a Darcy Doyle print.
But the though that the art is thought is right I reckon.  I just need to look at the pictures on the wall to be transported to a different time and place.  We have a number of rural scences on the wall.  Most are of scenes from more than 100 years ago.
But the one I particularly like in the room is a scene with a couple of boats moored to a pier on a glassy sea or river. 
Its weird.  I cannot explain the effects some art has.  I can just leave the final word to a quote by an Amedee Ozenfant. “Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary.”