Painting a pair of coasters was part of an evening event my wife and I recently attended. When I pick up a paintbrush, markers or other art supplies, a fish — or at least something fish related — usually forms.
In this case it was a square of the side of a brown trout. Mostly anyway. I went a little off script with some of the spot coloration. I was mostly content with the result and ready to try something else.
My wife suggested another kind of trout, and that would have been best. Instead I went for a what was supposed to be a Bob Rossish “happy little scene” with mountains, a little stream and some flowers. Not too far into it I knew it would be dreadfully lame and that I’d paint over it at home. That became the rainbow.
We ended up with a couple of extras, so I decided to add a brook trout to the set. I’ll probably stop there, but it’s not impossible that a cutthroat will eventually join the set.
The coasters are now part of my little basement studio area. I can’t say it makes perfect sense to have only one chair and three coasters on a chest that serves as an end table. However, I like having a few of my own fishy scruples as part of my video set.
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