Between rain squalls, when the sun lights up the recently washed houses and yards, everything just glows. Graves are often seen in front of the houses in American Samoa.
Pacific
Horizons School showed up with a 19 students (a few were hiding just for fun) and they were all curious about painting. They
asked;
How do you
figure out the colors?
How do you
make it look good?
Is it hard?
And,
Are you
going to paint us?
I
showed the kids the palette and how to match colors to the photo. How to mix a
few colors and gave a brief answer about how to make it look good. Kids do not
want to hear that it took fifty three years of diligent effort and I left out how
many times I’ve been told to get a job while crossing my fingers that another
commission would come through. The sincere Mom’s in the back of the room didn’t
need to rethink their current efforts to encourage budding young artists on my account.
Is it hard? Not so much anymore. The first painting I did after college I
worked on for a year, but I’ve seen more improvement from pushing myself to
finish one in a day. What keeps painting from being boring is that there is always room to improve
and more to learn.
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