My husband bought me a few new tubes of watercolor. I was itching to try them. I skipped the next Spring flower, the Daffodil, to paint a red flower. This beautiful Tulip was another tutorial by Anna Mason.
As I began painting this Tulip, I had trouble with what is called, “blooming.” This is when the paint spreads from the center of where the brush touches the paper and pools in outlines. I was frustrated with it. After a good night’s sleep, a delicious breakfast, and a walk; I came back to my painting.
I remembered that the reason for blooming is too much water. Ugh! That was it! When I took care to get just the needed amount of water and paint on my brush, blooming stopped. Now I could put a tiny touch of color in a corner or make a distinct line.
Our natural life is like water. Our spiritual life is like watercolor pigments. Our natural life includes everything we do, every word we speak, every thought and emotion. Our spiritual life colors those actions, words, thoughts and emotions. Our natural life can water down the effect of our spiritual life. Then, like a watercolor bloom, the effects of our spiritual life gets pushed out to the edges. We need a good mix of water and color to produce the kind of result God wants from our talents, experience, messages – our lives.
Be blessed and be a blessing. Keep the right mix in your life.