Take an object in your home, try to get the most bland and mundane object in your house or even get the most interesting. Get a sheet of paper (it doesnt matter what kind). Now draw it, it doesnt have to be neat, doesnt have to be detailed, doesnt need to be a picasso or da vinchi-esque mural to the selected item just make sure you get the vauge shape of it. Done? Okay good, Now colour it (i find pastels the best for this but it hardly matters what medium you use). Colour it not as it is but as i want you to see it, look at the faintest shades of colour and bring them out to the extreme. Make a bland grey or white cup yellow with red highlights and a teal shadow blazing with vividity and passion and personality. Make the colours so utterly magnificent that you cant HELP but be proud of it. Dont be neat, Dont be tidy just make it so full of emotion that people cant help but feel moved by it. Now do the background. Do swirls of two or three colours and blend them together. Make a fantastic aura around the object of whatever you desire, swirls, flames, spikes. Anything and everything is beautiful in this insane medium of colour.
Look back at it, its nice isnt it? Ii want you to apply this way of seeing things to how you live your life, bring out the vivaciousness of colour in the most drab and mundane days. Thats all that we really see in the world, colour, things are never purely black and white. The night sky is of the deepest blue and the pure white of the arctic snow is still a fragile glass prism ready to reflect light into a wonderful plethora of colours. Even the most depressing or gloomy circumstances can yield great beauty if we apply this method of seeking out the good parts and bringing them forward, its a nice little view of life i want to share with you and i hope it alteast makes the pessimists amoung us feel happy, and hopeful, for just one sublime moment.
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