Heyaaa! Hope you are doing fine. Welcome to the third episode of Journey with Hues. Some art lessons along with some of my life learnings is what today’s episode is all about. Although I was really excited when I started this blog, I pretty much knew that sooner or later I had to find my niche, if I can say so. And maybe, just maybe today’s episode is a first step towards what I want this blog to be all about.
Watercolours were the first thing that came to my mind when I was thinking of a topic to write on, could be because of my love for them. The art one can make using watercolours is only limited by imagination. I have just started exploring watercolours and believe me every time I paint something new, I learn something new. But this wasn’t always the case, there was a time when I almost got annoyed with watercolours but let me tell you how it all changed.
Watercolours were introduced to me during my school years. I vaguely remember an activity book and a watercolour set, which my school provided. It had this beautiful pictures on one page and a blank page, on the next, on which we had to paint those pictures. I used to be so excited every drawing class and by the end of the it I had a mini river on my desk and a big tear in my activity book. Although even my classmates ended painting more or less the same way, I felt so bad at the end of every art class because I knew I could paint something wonderful but just couldn't. Now you may ask about my art teacher, but the thing was that art was never taken seriously in my school and that maybe the case in most schools around the world. Maybe, no one thought that, one could make a career out of it. This went on for a few years, until finally, my school started providing acrylic colours to us. Although, I never had any knowledge about it, but I pretty much loved this medium and painted a lot with it too and learnt a lot too. Anyways, that is a story for some other time. Coming back, once again I thought of giving another try to watercolours during my college years and guess what!!! I failed again. And that was the time when I thought, maybe watercolours were not meant for me.
But then again, I did give watercolours another try last year and this time I made sure that I did a little of research on this medium. And it was what made all the difference. I read about painting with watercolours, watched many tutorial videos and practiced a lot! It was something of an eye opener for me and just made me realize the potential watercolours had! I learnt that there are papers specially meant for watercolours and there were special brushes too. Having this knowledge, I pretty much aced my first painting and the feeling was aesthetic. And that my friend was my brief on watercolours, do let me know in the comments if you’ll like a detailed chapter on it(you know like technicalities and all!!). Now it’s time for my learnings.
What I realized is that, most of the time I used to think that my knowledge was more than enough and when things didn’t work out according to the way I had imagined, I would simply give up, just like in the fox and the sour grapes story. And this was the thing that stopped me from being the better version of myself. I learnt that sometimes, we don’t realize the full potential of things, people or opportunities, may be because we don’t want to push ourselves out of our comfort zones. Most of the times we stop ourselves from gaining knowledge that may result in several missed opportunities. Accepting the fact that the life is for learning, in itself is a sign of growth. And now I know, that before giving upon things quite easily, I need to first find out why they are so in the first place. I don’t know if you can relate with me, if you do, do let me know in the comments.
This is all for this blog, see you until next time…
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