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simple is easy, and most of all simple is simple. Art is
furthered by the emotions that back it, giving personality to
the inanimate paints and breathing life into them. But unless
the painter chooses to create multiple works of a series, there
are only so many emotions that can be added to one lone
distribution of hue. So choose a random theme like whimsy in
the fields, gallantry in the night, swiftness in the underground.
These may not surface in your mind as images right away, but
in whimsy might be a child playing in the golden waves of
grain, gallantry a well-studded soldier walking home after a
long battle has been fought, and swift a pickpocket behind a
portly and rich pig. Simple context allows the painter to focus,
and it can be boiled down to one word or even something that
is far off and no longer tangible, like an emotion or unique
perception. These contexts will drive the themes of the new
masterworks.
For the person who is standing and questioning this crazy
idea of conjuring a robust and fully extended story in front of
them, for everyone frightened that the colors they chose aren’t
good enough for another being’s eyes, for all the jaded souls
who picked up this new hobby hoping to spark something new,
for all the folks back home meandering around for something