There are great moments in a girl's life when she isn't afraid of snakes.....my great nieces are having a great moment!  Sometimes our creativity is scared out of us and we have to color in the lines, afraid to break the rules.  It is a good thing to just to let all the teaching and education go....all the techniques and tips put aside and just paint.  Letting loose is where the break through moments come....and we lose our fear that keeps us inside the lines.  Enjoy!

The summer comes.....long awaited after winter's drab colors.  The palette changes and we get outside to let it soak into our bones.  Color is magic.  The range of possibilities is endless....rich and diverse.  In the 500 hundred years since oil paint was developed in the fifteenth century, artists have discovered a fascinating variety of way to render the colors of nature into expressions of art.  We mix, we blend, we layer and glaze until the harmony is just right.  We brush and wipe away, scrape and apply with knives and fingers.  Color doesn't exist without light....so we become light chasers, finding the shadows and patterns in different kinds of weather.   Not only do we learn the primary, secondary and tertiary colors, we talk about hue, intensity, temperature and value.  But, in all the techniques there is a common denominator......we paint, we draw, we sculpt because we have to.....it is who we are.....co-creators with the Creator who ignites the spark.