Have you ever studied a painting? I am sure you have looked at a painting…. but have you ever looked close at the brush strokes that created the painting? Probably not. I am not finding fault, I did not look myself, before I started painting. But now I certainly do. Because from afar you are just enjoying the painting, and maybe don’t realize the work that went into creating that painting.
Let’s think about how that painting was created. An artist picked up a brush, dipped it in paint, and swirled it onto a canvas. Sometimes they used a large brush to cover more of the canvas, and sometimes they used a smaller brush for detail. No matter what the size of the brush, it was an implement to get the paint on the canvas.
While the artist used that brush, she also stepped back from the canvas, to see what it looked like overall. To see how the brush strokes blended. If they were creating what the artist intended. Because up close the strokes don’t always look like much.
So hopefully you now realize that it is a little harder than it looks. Sometimes it works well, and sometimes we have to start over. Either way, its a wonderful thing to create, and I am so thankful that I get to work these brushstrokes to create art.
Art and Musings by Marnie 