Sometimes, when the world is grey and
colourless, it helps to look for colour around us.
Fortunately, I have a garden to examine... a rainbow coloured garden.
The variety of colours in my small garden is stupendous. Let me show you the spectrum available on one day:
It cheers me up. It reminds me how much I love to create bright, colourful paintings.
My colourful garden reminds me of much
loved aunts who created colourful paintings: Auntie Anne who painted
magnificence in clouds, Aunt Hazel who painted the variegated
colours within a single bloom, and the array of colours in a bouquet,
Aunt Glowie who painted the deeply etched colours of landscapes and
the brightness of blooms in her garden.
I cannot emulate them, but I can
certainly display my pretensions, and my own variation on a theme. I
splash colourful splotches on paper and smoosh crayon-acrylic on
canvas. Creating art gives me pleasurable in expression, a
recreation of the colours of my mind's eye, the rainbow spectrum that
is in all of our minds.
My garden is an inspiration for art - it adds natural colour to a world that otherwise
could be grey.
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