Gray is the colour of the day at present. With jet black clouds pouring down disasters here, there and everywhere, darker than night appears the daily destiny. No amount of chatter about 'chai n bhajji' cheers up, what with ugly deaths dime a dozen.
In such a shady context, how colourful it is to know that July is the month world wide designated for celebrating water colour painting! Sure, brush pens and paint pens are less messy. Undoubtedly, acrylics dry faster.
Yet nothing matches the lyricism of water colours. The shades one can manage through water colours are unbelievable. Even the brush behaves better with water colours. Brush strokes are easier with water colours, though, sure, like everything else, practice, in painting, too, makes the artist perfect.
Well, July is officially designated as the 'World Watercolor Month' by a global charitable celebration founded in 2016 by Charlie O'Shields of 'Doodlewash'. Whatever be your level of proficiency, why not develop it a notch higher by taking up the challenge of a painting per day; at least one per week?
Simple patterns such as flowers or outlines of cityscapes would do, too, right? With all sorts of dark news making days dirtier, why not thus beautify the mindscape?
Pratima@ If you cannot spare the time to paint a water colour, how about at least a dekko at a few? Online resources are aplenty. For all you know, some AI site might even be painting one for you!
Quote of the day: "If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." That is some encouragement from Vincent van Gogh!
Word of the day: palette A palette is primarily a flat board used by artists to hold and mix paints. By extension, the term refers to the specific range of colors an artist may use in his/her oeuvre.
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