Today I'm linking up over at Lisa Jo Baker's for Five Minute Friday. Today, the prompt is "paint". This is the time where we write for five minutes straight without worrying about perfection or editing. Won't you come on over and join in?
I walked in my usual five minutes late to class.
She
said, “Tonight we’re going to paint a color wheel.”
I had been warned about this the week before. Not warned
in the sense that it was going to be a bad thing. But, reminded.
She handed out a photocopied blank color wheel.
We all
stared at them.
Then, she had us start mixing colors. That’s the idea
behind the color wheel right? To learn the true primary colors, the secondary
colors, tint and tone, and then the other ones that I forgot the name for.
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| my unfinished color wheel |
As I got to work, the primary colors were easy because
they were squeezed out of the tube. But, then the mixing of the colors with
water on my pallet.
Orange wasn’t too tricky, but red orange and yellow
orange? And then tints and tones of each?
Our teacher was so patient and forgiving. We whined that
our colors were not like our neighbor's.
She said, “All I want you to see is
that each section is different. Otherwise yours will be different than the
person sitting next to you."
For two hours I concentrated.
I struggled a little.
I am
a perfectionist so I wanted to get it right the first time. like always.
As I came home and had a cup of tea after class, I was
thinking how much I struggled to make all the colors on my color wheel and how
God, in his infinite Creatorship and artistic ability, threw all the colors on
His canvas with just His Word for us to enjoy.
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| God's color wheel |
I never realized how painting a color wheel would make me
think of God.
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