Oil portrait artist and husband sit for spring greeting card
Even though I may write you most often from the viewpoint of an artist creating oil portraits, I join each person on earth in making a myriad of things every day in his life. From neatening a room, to cooking a pancake, making a trip, buying a postcard, writing an email, making an announcement, hearing and understanding someone’s troubles and then comforting the troubled one. From another viewpoint, any man-made object that you could view is made from many hands: a postcard has your written note on it, the photo taken by a photographer, printed by a team of printers from ink made by a team of craftsmen onto paper make from another team of craftsmen, the stamp designed and painted by an artist, its printer, the trimmer, the glue recipe. How many people contribute to a loaf of bread bought from a grocery store? 10? 20? (How many people contribute to the canvases and oil portrait supplies that I use?) We are always causing effects, each one of us, every minute of every day.
With all this going on, one can see there is no shortage of actions that a person can make in one’s life. One never has to worry about being able to cause things. To carry this a little further, one could make a goal and know that there could be no end of actions that one would be able to make towards attaining that goal. It could even be said that every action that one makes either supports one’s aims or doesn’t. Let’s celebrate our abilities to cause the things that make our lives better, our families better, our groups better, our nations and all mankind better. Let’s celebrate all the good actions that make this planet a friendlier place to live. And let’s know that we can keep doing that and we have plenty of chances to make them better.
Here’s to a happy, productive spring, from Jessica and Gerry at Rockwell Portraits.
Related posts:
New Year’s 2011: Beyond Oil Portraits Painting
Other posts about the artist:
Artist Self-Portrait
My Cousin Norman Rockwell
Public TV Films Jessica Rockwell and Clients
