This may be off the direct beaten path, but with yesterday being Valentines’ Day and this week being President’s Week, it created a unique appeal for me to talk about them in light of artist painters. So with that in mind here are a few, seven, reasons for artists to consider these days.

First, artist painters paint! They paint beautiful wonderful works or they paint horrendous awful works and that is usually totally up to the viewing audience and the critics. All of whom will say, huh, well I have my own opinion and I am entitled to it or tell you it’s what they get paid to do.

Secondly, artist painters usually have passion. They love what they do and when asked, “What would they rather be doing?”; they will all look at you with that you are completely out of your mind look and firmly but compassionately say, “I’m doing it”.

Thirdly and fourthly, I’m going to combine because artists love color and the color red and artists love flowers. This is exhibited in every form of gallery that culture and society has to offer. Shapes, sizes, representations, realistic, impressionistic, abstract, you name it and flower s and color are all “passionately” expressed when artists paint!

Fifthly and sixthly, I combine as well because artists are a part of society and culture and marriage or single alike plays a part of all artists’ life. Artists have always worked and been influenced or had influence on culture. For Valentine’s Day or for any other Holiday they will use the opportunity to promote their works, work on their works or let the days themselves and the culture influence their works. They even may make it an opportunity to speak out from their works. As with any holiday artist painters are also influenced personally with family and friends on these occasions. If they are married, they’d better not forget about certain holidays’.

Seventh and lastly, artist painters are influenced by love. In their constant struggles they have been encouraged and honored by some and been put aside, ignored, and criticized by others. Their loves have kindled and made their passions burn and their critics have driven them from their life’s passion. One thing is that artist painters have been given indescribable gifts by their Creator, God. They have been given so much. Think about a gift that has to be so close to the Creator’s heart. Along with the love He offers each one, to the artist He gave a unique ability to see, to interpret, and to express in a myriad of medium and so much more. All too often, we all are just too busy to look and to ponder all the fantastic works at His Exhibitions and in His Gallery. Stand there, go there, be there, take that holiday and visit the open air exhibits. Feel the wind, the warmth, the cold the frost. See the beauty, the grass, the fields, the mountains, the caves, the cavern, the brooks, the streams, the lakes the rivers, the ocean. Step outside and look at the dance that goes on in the heavens daily and the ever present light show that comes on clear evenings. Look small, look large, look near, look far. Look with your eyes, with your heart, with your soul. Try to grasp the rush of color in a single petal, blade of grass, strand of wheat. Look at the veins in your own hands; see the hands, the face, and the lips of the one you love.

Ponder all He has made. How He has considered the Holidays and how He has considered you. Seven is the number of perfection and He is. You don’t even need to be an artist painter to see that and enjoy it.

Douglas Auld
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Douglas Auld
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