Just an apple. I'm sure everyone on earth starts learning how to paint by painting an apple. But I love it. It is acrylic paint on a cheap little canvas. I worked on it for about an hour. I find it absolutely amazing that in one hour I went from feeling bewildered and hesitant to feeling proud.

I started off, scared of ruining the canvas. I was scared of screwing up with the paint. Charcoal can, after all, be erased. I am overwhelmed that from that blank, white canvas I created something that anyone could recognize as an apple. Every week I think "I have no idea how I was able to do this."