Have you ever noticed....

Recently a suggestion to get creative was made to me and in searching the internet I found group painting classes.  These events allow for wine and painting.  While not as yet partaking of the fruit of the vine (since a sip can put me out and there is the whole driving thing), the painting part has been quite the experience.  It has been the addictive part.

This is my first painting:

 Bright and fun.  Granted not at all like the one that was the "model", but seeing everyone else's, including the instructor, they all had their own uniqueness which is much more enjoyable than if you had 30 paintings that all looked alike.  Kinda like people.  Hmmm.

Looking at a painting up close, one that is actually a painting with acrylic painting verses one that is a photo-print picture, you can see the brush strokes.  The places where the paint didn't completely cover the canvas or where more paint accumulated.  You see all the imperfections and it doesn't look like much of anything when you are hyper focused on the close up details.



However when you step back...

you see a very nice picture.  The brush strokes actually come together and all the tiny little flaws aren't seen (yes the larger ones are) but the tiny ones add to the picture.


Seems to me that people are like that too.  If we are examined and scrutinized up close there is plenty of flaws to be seen but stepping back and seeing how all those brush strokes make up a picture?  How thankful we should be for all those "brush strokes" that make up the picture that is you and that is me.