The Masterpiece Date Friday, April 19, 2024 - 07:33 PM PST Topic Illustrations The painting starts with a drab gray- a shade that the eye barely registers. It is there only to set the scene, to make the colors developing around it brighter, more vibrant. Yellow follows, awakening in a gentle sunrise from the gray, as if being drawn out by the prospect of being seen and appreciated for is playful nature too long repressed. Following the yellow almost too soon, pink, the shade of flushed skin and probing tongues washes over the canvas, muting yellow and making gray but a memory. It is the unexpected twins of purple and white that enter from the corners, smoothly gliding towards the center, tickling the other colors until they meet to form shades of clenched knuckles. The artist stands back for a moment, perhaps contemplating where to next direct this powerful emerging work, or maybe to carefully mix the next shade- a deep green. It cannot be the shade of jealousy nor of fear. Instead it is the color of life, of energy, of a well-nurtured plateau that blooms with pinks, yellows, purples and whites. Here, at this place, the colors dance with one another until the canvas is gasping for breath, waiting, wanting, begging for the artist to complete their delicate, passionate work. Calling upon that passion, a short and well-placed brushstroke of red explodes onto the paint, leaving no corner plain, no emotion untouched, no sense unaffected. Wave after wave of mauve and crimson pulse life into this painting. Only slowly do orange and blue settle at the center, creating a glow, an afterthought that entices both memory and expectation. Black lingers at the edges, offering dreams and rest, but before the paint has even dried, the artist, grinning, is beginning another work. This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=766