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[channonyarrow]

Dear "muse",

No, really, I do not need to take up painting. I cannot paint, in fact, as evidenced by the last time I tried to, for a performance art class. I had the "performance" part down, but not so much the art, and really, when you're trying to do pictures of the children of Nazis and Jews, you need to have more ability than that of the

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[drui_en]

*pets*

I understand completely. I'm like that with baking.

[channonyarrow]

But the idea is so cool! *wails* I WANT to be a painter, but I'm so not.

[drui_en]

Keep telling yourself that, and you won't be.
What are your expectations for yourself?

[channonyarrow]

Trust me, better ability than I have. I have many fabulous creative skills, but anything that involves a representation of the human form is not happening. I can't draw. So my expectation is that what I see would actually be close to what happens when I try to make it reality, and paint is not a medium I have that control in. Nor one that, right now, I have the space or the money to learn, unfortunately.