Shades of Charcoal

 

           Shades of Charcoal- For Depth

When I think of fair colors, another thing that comes to mind is art. I LOVE ART!!! In almost every form or medium, I just love it <3 There are so many tints and hues of paint; there are so many different pencils, charcoals, pastels, chalks, and clays! So many mediums! So many possible forms of expression.
As I thought of art in a gospel sense I felt that each of us are very much like a painting. We start pure and white. A blank canvas ready to be transformed! At first the brushes of paint may seem like fatal strokes that destroy the once pure fabric stretched tight on that wood frame. But as we put our lives in the master painter's hands He helps us become greater and grander than we were before. Some of the dark paints may seem like stains that ruin the picture. But what they truly add is depth and emotive motion! As Jane Eyre says "You need the shadows to appreciate and see the light". I know that as we put our lives into the hands of the master painter, our Heavenly Father, that He will help us go from static to dynamic! The process might seem staining and it is difficult at times, but we will be so much better off in the end.

"For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so...righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery,neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be compound in one" 2 Nephi 2:11

Here is some of my art :-)