Beginning

Let me begin by introducing myself. My name is Jennifer Conn and I am an artist painting mainly in watercolor. I began painting about 5 years ago, under the instruction of my mom, fine artist Grace Scherer.

A couple years ago I became familiar with a group of artists on ebay--daily painters or painting a day artists. As you can surmise from their name they try to complete a painting every day. It was something I definitely wanted to try but with a job and family it seemed unlikely to happen. I am not the type of person to do something half-heartedly or second-rate, and I didn't want to start something I couldn't finish so I never attempted a painting a day. In the meantime I have enjoyed reading daily painter's blogs, seeing their work, and tried to produce a few paintings of my own each week.

As the economy has soured I found myself among the many across America being laid-off from my job. As the months have passed, and my job hunt has been to no avail my thoughts have turned back to trying the "painting a day." So here I am at the day before a brand new year . . . one that no one knows what it will bring but for me it is a new start--an adventure. I must admit that I am a little nervous as anyone is when they start something new and want it to be good and want it to be a success. However, I have to give it a try!

And so tomorrow for me is the beginning.