An introduction to me as artist

Welcome to my learning log.

How do I feel about my decision to study the arts? 

I always felt that I wasted some of the opportunities available to me at university as a teenager, and thought I should like to do another degree in later life and do it better. Art has been a go-to hobby throughout my adult life, although I have had no particular training in it, and hitherto had limited time to indulge in it, but it is the thing I feel most interested in developing and have the potential to get better at. I have been retired for just over two years and have loved the freedom to do nothing, but have just started to think that I want something a bit more, so it seemed the right time to make the leap. I have joined three local art groups down here in Tavistock since retiring, all very different; I have tinkered with various media and techniques, and I can now turn out a vaguely acceptable picture from a photo, but recognise that this is very limited and I want to create my own original art.