ColetteWatercolours

Painting Outside the Lines

"You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.”
- Albert Einstein.

Painting watercolour is often about choices. The choice of where to leave white paper, of how much I want to give over control to the flow of water and paint, of what parts of the original image are included and how much of my own vision do I include.  

As a child I was told that the sky is blue, the trees are green, the snow is white, to colour inside the lines. And as a beginner in any art, it is a good place to start. Then I notice that the sky is not always blue, the trees not always green, and the snow...and I ask what if they're not? 

Colouring "outside the lines" is said to "not follow the rules, to think creatively, to behave in an unconventional manner." I believe each person has the capacity to be creative - it's what give us the ability to problem solve, to consider about alternative perspectives, and to come up with new ideas. Creativity lives in the soul of inventors, entrepreneurs & scientists.
And it's by being a creative person that I grow from a child to someone who is free to paint without judgement, with courage to try new ideas, and discover my own masterpieces.