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Colouring it in
Colouring it in
Hello folks
I spoke to a friend of mine this week who told me about one of her older relations using art as a remedial therapy. He is currently painting by numbers. This of course is often ridiculed by people who are serious about their art, or people who dare not paint!
He is also a little bit frightened of moving away from the shapes and direction of the pictures that he buys to fill in, and doing it for himself, and I thought...(oh dear... thought is a dangerous practice!)
We all colour in shapes, no matter how we draw them onto a canvas, onto paper or how we see the shapes in our minds. Just because the shapes have been printed for someone, does not mean to say that their efforts are fruitless.
We all learn, and the process is often a little different for each one of us, and we all have to start out somewhere. As we often regard painting as a part of ourselves, then should we not value effort? Maybe it is not always about how we construct and paint, but about the effort that we put into each of our works. I know that I value effort in every respect.
I went to a friends house recently, and was shown two paintings by two very different girls. One was technically quite good for her age, and the other girl was not, but who is to say how much effort and emotion they both expended in producing the work? Maybe when we learn to understand what another person feels like, and validate and respect their feelings, we can show ourselves to be individuals that are truly accomplished?
Help your friends when you can. Share what you know. Give without asking for something back, and always love with the whole of yourself.
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