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“My God, in whom I delight, my glory, and my trust, I thank you for your gifts, and beg you to preserve and keep them for me. Keep me, too, and so your gifts will grow and reach perfection and I shall be with you myself, for I should not even exist if it were not by your gift.”
–from Confessions
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I had been in the fields of pingba for a whole afternoon, head pounding. The entire morning was spent looking and driving, seeking the right place to stop and paint. We found a beautiful place, and after a meager lunch, set up to paint under an overcast sky. I cant find the photo of that day’s painting, unfortunately…sooner or later.
Concentrating on the scene before me, i felt there should be colors that were not there (as often is the case on overcast, misty oriental days). I trusted the intuition, mixed the color, and applied it. To my great satisfaction, the sun came out half an hour later, and illuminated the precise spot that i had imagined.
The sun continued that day, and burnt me pretty well. I finished the painting 2 hours later, by which time i had already gathered quite an assorted crowd of folks. The kids here were coming out of class and walking the long road home for dinner. After about 15 autographs, we packed up and were escorted to our car.
