What it's all about

I can sketch a recognizable thing, I know a little something about graphic design, I doodle really well.  Sit me in a boring meeting with a pen and paper and I can draw a mean peacock.  Sometimes I get the shading right.  Basically, I am vaguely artistic and have never not once done a thing about it, except always wish I could . . . do art better.  

I've at various times (and not at all in the past 20 years or so) tried watercolors, pen and ink, acrylics, oils, whatever, maybe produced a forgettable picture, lost interest and moved on.  I've never taken a class or studied any kind of artistic concept deeper than yellow-and-blue-make-greens, which is probably why anything I've tried to do hasn't met my expectations.  I've never put the slightest effort into learning art basics.  I've always just wanted to Paint really cool things!  Right Now! and when I can't draw what's in my head I get frustrated and then don't want to draw at all.  

But I really want to paint cool things, dammit.  I think I've maybe gotten old enough to admit that no, I just can't do the complex things without first mastering the simple thing like I wish I can.  So I'm finally buckling down and am going to actually learn how to actually draw, so I can learn how to paint, so I can paint cool things.

And I'm gonna try to blog about it.  Are you with me?

Ok then, let's figure this shit out.