Consider this, Sally. Nobody came to your door to recruit you to learn to draw. This was your very own bright idea. You can stop any time, and you'll be the only one who cares. Well, maybe not the only one, but the larger world is not going to be affected. It's not going to be "fun." Why should it be? It should be interesting, and it has been. Expect to be dissatisfied. If the rest of us slave away, in my case in wind and rain, why should you expect to glide through and achieve even minimal competency quickly? In fact, I know you don't have any such expectations. I see that you find the whole process engaging, that once you sit down at your work space or stand at your easel something happens. You feel alert, filled with a sense of possibility despite all the erasures you make. I know that you are pleased with many of the things that you have done so far.
The possibility of doing better will always be with you. I feel that I always flunk sky painting. Well, that sense of a need to do better will be what enables you to actually do better. It's conceivable that I will be satisfied with a sky I paint.
The pleasure of looking closely will carry you through. The pleasure of looking at other people's work will sustain and inspire you.
Get on with it.
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