Tuesday, September 6, 2011

What's the one thing you wish you could do?

I spent some time painting today. After which I tweeted this: "Painting is one of those things that looks easy, but hurts like hell." Watching someone else paint a room is like, well, watching paint dry. Balancing with one leg on a ladder and the other on a window sill whilst performing approximations of yoga moves in order to 'cut in' in a straight line is another ordeal all together.

While I was in there brushing away, however, I had a fair bit of time to think. Which brought me to one of my favourite pastimes - that of mentally filling out questionnaires in my head. No, really. Those witty little columns that make up the front and back of newspaper magazines the world over require a lot of thought. What is my favourite book? What would I eat for my last meal? What, from a long list of unfashionable things that I love to do, would be my most loved ever?

The only question I can ever answer with any certainty is this one: What's the one thing you wish you could do? Most people answer 'sing' for this. But, as I have shared before, lack of ability does not stop me singing, so I disregard that. Nope, the one thing I wish I could do is, ironically, paint. Not walls (particularly after today). Paintings. Works of art.

Actually, I'd settle for being able to doodle.

I am the least visual person I know. My drawing style began and ended at stick figures. So, yes. That art stuff? That's the one thing I wish I could do.

What's the one thing you wish you could do?


[image: Mr4's latest drawing of a Christmas tree is a far superior effort to mine]

21 comments:

  1. Be an amazing dancer, all types, maybe not ballet, but great enough to win So You think you can dance.

    Sadly, I can pretty much only do a half decent nutbush at weddings and that is it.

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  2. Iceskate.

    I would love me a little bit of Torvill and Dean action.

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  3. Say "it's not my problem". Just once.

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  4. Drawing / painting would be up there for me too.
    Close behind the singing/playing music without offending ears thing. How I'd love to be able to pick up a guitar strum away and belt out a recognisable tune.
    :-)

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  5. Mine would be sewing. I like the idea of it but the execution of it is another matter. xx

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  6. Play guitar beyond strumming 6 cords, really freaking playing!


    Cranky Old Man

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  7. I'd love to be able to restore furniture...

    x

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  8. Same same - draw/paint/doodle enough that people can tell the difference between when I'm drawing a moon and when it's a banana.

    Infuriatingly (or because of this) I married someone who can paint like PROPERLY. I'm hoping at least my son will inherit those artistic genes.

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  9. Play the piano.

    I have this deep seated conviction that I can just sit down and play jazz. It doesn't matter that I know I can't, one day it'll just happen :)

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  10. Not that I love painting, but I definitely am fond of all that thinking time while doing something so absolutely mindless!

    As for the one thing I could do... hmmm. I'd really love to play the guitar. You know, be Eric Clapton Brilliant.

    Now THAT would be something.

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  11. Me? I wish I could sing. A can sing, a little, sort of hold a tune. But I have no power, no range, no bravado. Actually, maybe I can't sing....
    I wish I could sing like Christina Aguliera. Really, really!

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  12. Can I have two? Sewng and knitting - I'd love to be able to make my kids lovely patchwork quilts and warm winter jumpers. As it is my knitting hasn't improved since high-school when I knit my skirt to my knitting :(
    I'm actually starting sewing classes soon, but I'm not holding my breath!

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  13. I'd love to be able to play the violin really, really well. I wouldn't want to settle for just ok:)

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  14. Ditto. Drawing/painting. I would give ANYTHING to have 0.001% of the talent a couple of my friends have (damn the artistic circles I travel in!!)

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  15. I wish I could raise just one eyebrow at a time. I encounter so many moments that call for a single raised eyebrow, and I just can't do it. Drives me mad.

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  16. I wish I could play guitar. I still regret giving up lessons at 15.
    Boy 1 drew a doodle the other day. He said "Mum, I drew a doodle!" then under his breath mumbled "It's not a real one". Doodle is our name for, er ... willie.
    PS Why is Mr 4 drawing christmas trees? He's got a long way to go before December, might be hard to sustain that pace!

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  17. Least arty? Have you seen your mother play Pictionary? I'd like to be able to do what that Sarah Blasko did at the gig (without the arm action) x

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  18. I wish I could estimate. Seriously. 10 feet? 100 feet? 500 feet? It all looks the same to me.

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  19. Another thing we have in common -- I can't draw to save myself. Oddly, my mother is quite good, as is my aunt. And my daughter loves to draw, spends hours on it and I think may be following after my mum and aunt. Obviously drawing talent skips a generation. My daughter asks me to draw things all the time and I just freeze. Seriously, though, 'Draw a baby crawling, mummy!' is a bit of a stretch. She could at least start with a simple tree, or a box house or something...

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  20. i used to think sing...but like you i realized i still sing regardless of the fact that others wish i wouldn't...so i guess i'd like to be a really good dancer. like freestyle i guess...i did ballroom and stuff so i'm okay at that, but i feel like a frog in a blender just out dancing....but i do it anyway.

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  21. I nearly spat out my deec when I read that first line, for I though my dear sister actually was artistically painting and that was coke-spitting worthy!

    As I have always said to you, I think you are much, much more artistic than you ever give yourself credit for. Everyone is. You just have to believe... x

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