Its not just doors I'm painting.

SK has awakened the artist in me. A few months ago, I picked up a pencil and wanted to draw her, but she has little patience for staying still. So I bought a canvas and some paints and I sketched my favourite photo of us together.

Now I've started to fill it in.This painting still needs a lot of work but I've filled out most of the canvas now and hopefully it will look better when I get a chance to blend the colours better.I haven't tried to paint in years.

Funny what love makes us do.....

Even stranger is an art gallery exhibition we went to last year where I was convinced I could do better than some of the paintings there. Well, it looks like I have.

I know my painting is amateurish and needs more work done, but this was the standard of a lot of the 'expert' local artists I saw last year.

It won't be exactly like the photo (and I'm tempted to remove my double chin) but it will be a good likeness of us both.