I decided to teach myself how to draw paisley last night. This is something that I have noted in the back of my mind as something I’ve wanted to do for quite some time now.  As I began to sketch last night, I was thinking of how daunting it had seemed, and how that had always kept me from even sitting down to give it a try, when I realized that (like most things) it wasn’t that hard really.  This discovery led me to the realization that I let fear of failure cause me to falter in my confidence in my artistic ability, and that I get in the way of my own success.  But such are the demons that wake after an arduous day and an evening of cocktails that slips into the sleepless hours before dawn.  So before I forced my brain to quiet and my eyes to close, I took a step toward fighting that demon, and this is what happened:

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