The miracle of painting.

If you plant a seed in the ground, then God does the hard stuff and makes it grow.

The miracle of growing a tree is by you first planting a seed in dirt.

How does this relate to painting?

Same as planting a tree.

Education.

You must know which seed grows which tree.

Same with painting, you must know how to paint, what to paint and why you are painting.

Activity.

If you don't plant the seed in the ground, it will not grow.

Looking at it won't make it grow.

Wishing it would grow won't make it grow.

Only planting it in the ground will make it grow.

So with painting, you have to do it.

Not wishing it will happen, not hoping it will happen, you have to pick up the brush and start to paint, for the painting to grow.

It does not matter how inspired you are, how motivated you are or how talented you are, if you do not pick up the brush and paint, you are just an inspired, motivated, talented unproductive artist.

The key to your miracle is in the act of painting, the doing and then comes the miracle of the painting.

A blank canvas becomes a beautiful creation.

The inspiration, the motivation and the talent becomes the soil out of which your miracle comes, but if don't pick up the brush and paint, just like if you don't put the seed in the ground, then you won't get your miracle.

Education plus activity, planted into talent, inspiration and motivation, produces the miracle.

Next time you don't feel like painting, remember you don't need to, you just need to paint and the “soil” will produce the miracle.

Of course this also relates to every area of our lives, if you don't do, then you don't get the miracle.

Mark Shellshear. 

Art consultant.

markshellshear@gmail.com