Painting Gives Life To Life

If you could paint a picture of America, what do you think it would look like?

Would it be:

An abstract painting with a message only you would be able to interpret,

a beautiful still life watercolor looking out to the beholder a scene of peace and tranquility,

would it be an oil painting with your brush strokes of life giving your viewers you interpretation of the skyline of NewYork, focusing on the new One World Trade Center,

maybe it would be a mixed media painting of a map of the United States using your imagination and all the colors of the rainbow as your color palate,
a nation inhabited with children living in peace and love,
a picture of people living in dark fearful places, afraid to come out,
a field of beautiful wild flowers just waiting for hand painted vases filled with love to accept them,

it could even begin by painting a picture you like from a paint by numbers canvas.

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Most Americans and people from the rest of the world, would provide a kaleidoscopic painting landscape of what America has become to look like to us, as well as to our global family. Maybe if we would just take the time in our seemingly too busy lives to gather up the necessary painting materials, each one of us could begin the journey of finding the artist that lives in all of us, and discover what the great artists of all time discovered; when we paint we discover who we really are. They wanted us to see life as they saw it through their eyes. Painting gives life to life.

When you have your vision in your head of what America looks like to you today, even though it may not be pretty, paint it anyway. If you do not like what you see, you may want to begin a new painting of what you would like to see America look like, but make sure you become the changes you may wish to see in your renewed painting.

A great way to begin to find the artist in you would be to take yourself, a friend, or a child to your closest art museum and begin to look at life through someone else's eyes, but put what your eyes see on the canvas of  your life.

Seek the artist in you and you will find a beautiful piece of art.
Painting gives life to life.
My painting is finished., maybe you should get yours started today, don't wait till tomorrow.