New Joy of Painting Has Arrived

Day 39

The New Joy of Painting book has finally arrived. I can't wait to delve onto this book and read about painting without the numbers. Hopefully I can create a very good and expressive painting. Bob Ross makes it look so simple; his paintings come out so beautiful, I can hardly wait for summer. I don't have the ventilation to paint inside.

I ordered this book from Amazon and it came with tracking. The book arrived in within a week and in excellent condition. My only complaint is with the tracking. Basically it was just marked "item shipped" until it arrived. No tracking info. I thought it was never going to get here. It's Christmastime and I was a little anxious.

I ordered another book from Toledo, OH just south of Detroit. The tracking shows it was picked up in Toledo and went from there to Warrendale, PA several hundred miles to the east. Now it gets to come back to Detroit and then shipped north to Houghton Lake. Seems wasteful to me.

I guess I need to relax and paint a landscape scene on canvas, with a 2" paintbrush and a paint scraper. Miraculous.

Until tomorrow.

Ken