The Color of Light
Even in black and white
“In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.”
— Hans Hofmann
All writers are artists.
Our palette is the alphabet. We substitute a pen or pencil for brushes. All we need is a blank page.
And we paint.
My grandmother was a painter.
It was her second career — she was an RN for the first half of her life. But after her children were grown, she wandered into an art class at the local community college and the rest, as they say, is history.
She was hooked.
I remember going to her house as a child; she had an entire room filled with canvases and color. I heard she taught classes at the college where she once learned. I saw her talent hanging on every wall.
I can’t draw at all, much less paint.
My grandmother “helped” me paint a landscape that she entered into a children’s art contest. I won. But trust me —I needed a lot of help.
I was thinking about the seventh prompt of the 15 Days, 15 Stories challenge:
