I don't know anything about painting.

Yet I can't let go of the brush.

Someone once told me I tend to begin my introductions with: I’m not a…

It’s true, I will usually say I’m not a painter, I’m not a poet, I’m not a fiction writer, I’m not a photographer. I’m not a cook or a gardener. I think it must be my impostor syndrome speaking. I make no distinction between which of those statements are actually true. If I stop and think about them I’m certainly NOT a fiction writer, photographer, or gardener.

For years I’ve repeated the statement like a mantra: I’m not a painter, I’m a drawing artist.

But I’ve been painting.

The reason I say I’m not a painter is because I will never be able to create something like this:

This is my favourite painting ever. Be prepared for me to share this image over and over.

Grabbed a brush nonetheless

So when I started to use water-mixable oil paints and had no idea how oil paint worked I …