Orchid

When I was doing art for my A-Levels I remember being made to do a piece of artwork on the topic of 'patterns in nature'.  For one class every week of the term we had to work on the same drawing, which was a pencil drawing of a picture of a flower or seed head from a book.  This was not my kind of art at all - I liked doing lots of ideas, none of which I did very well.  My other art teacher said 'that if you gave Jenny a room full of paper and paint and locked her in a room, then by the time you let her out every bit of paper would have something on it'.  At the time I took it as a compliment, not so much now!

Whilst doing this drawing I remember complaining to the teacher numerous times that it was hard and boring. In hindsight, I just didn't have the patience to work at one thing for that long and do it well. His response was 'this is not hard, try painting a shaft of light hitting a white wall - that's hard'.  I thought it a bit pretentious and unhelpful at the time, definitley an art teacher type thing to say, but often when I see a shaft of light hit a white wall, it very much reminds me of his words.  And no I've never tried. 

Ran out of time to blip today, did more painting then cleaned the house and cooked tea with P still out of action with covid (I'm still feeling fine).  Mum donated this orchid to me and I wondered what it would be like to photograph against a white-ish freshly painted wall.  All I can say is thank goodness for lightroom.