Memories in a Painting

Dear Diary,

I visited my cousin in her new home and noticed she still had my painting hanging.  I then noticed that the painting was done 40 years ago in 1976!  Could it really be that long ago?  What a floodgate of memory seeing that painting opened up!  I painted this my third year in college for a painting class I was taking.  Although I was a photography and film making major I was also in Art Education which required me to take lots of different art classes.   It shows an attic room in a house I was living in at the time with my first husband.

A few years later I began teaching and evening painting class for adults that would last 20 years, with some of the students staying with the class all those years.  I really enjoyed those evening painting classes.  We all became great friends over the years.

I haven't done any painting in 20 years.  I was always way more interested in photography than painting.  Every now and then I get a little urge to pick up a brush again but nothing yet.  My daily photo journaling is keeping me fully occupied but it was fun to see this old painting again and remember another life that now seems so long ago.