April's Mission Inspiration wasn't too inspiring!!

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No, it wasn't. It called for coral, mint green and kraft brown. It also wanted us to draw a face or part of a face. It didn't specify that it had to be a human face, however. I considered a lion or a tiger, but settled for a human face. The prompt also had 5 words to choose from. I chose "root(s)."  I scraped the coral paint on the paper with a scraper. My mint green didn't turn out very well, but, hey, who really cares? It's the creativity that counts, right?
I made several attempts with the face, finally coming up with one that I sorta cheated on and traced on with graphite paper!  I stamped on the tree in black and added kraft leaves.

IN the grand scheme of life, do any of us today really know where our roots come from? As a man of faith, I know mine came from the house of David, but that's really stretching it a long way. So, I used the tree to represent roots, and family. All in all, it was not my best work, but as it turned out, I like it better each time I look at it. And over on the Mission Inspiration Facebook page, I have had several "likes" and some favorable comments! Yay!!



Until next time,
Go! Create something!

JF

Comments

  1. CurleyApril 28, 2019 at 2:21 PM

    I really like that. The face really draws my eye to it and I love the coral and green mix.

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