No one else has to be able to recognize or understand what you are drawing - just you. Now open your eyes and try to draw what you imagined or felt. Try to feel what it would be like living in that world. Take a minute or two to sit silently, with your eyes closed, and imagine how the world around you would look if there was harmony everywhere. Lesson #1 - Colored pencils, crayons or markers When we have a chance to express ourselves through art, we feel harmony and a sense of accomplishment inside us. Art is one way for us to connect to our inner world - who we are inside. When we practice art we have a chance to create pictures of the world the way we see the world, and at the same time to express the feelings that we have about different things in the world. Every one of us sees the world in our own unique way, because we each have special feelings, ideas and dreams that nobody else has. The visual arts include things like drawing, painting, sculpture and mosaics. When we make some- thing with colors and shapes, it is called visual arts. Because he had painted the feelings of light for his whole life, he didn‘t really need to see things anymore to be able to paint.Įnjoying art can be one of the best ways for us to feel harmony and to express ourselves. Still he was able to paint the most beautiful paintings even though he could hardly see. When Claude was an old man, he became almost totally blind. His style of painting was called Impressionism. Instead, he painted the deep feelings that the things gave him - especially when the light touched them. He didn‘t paint these things the way they were ‗supposed‘ to look. One of his favorite things to paint was a flower. Then Claude painted the different kinds of light touching all kinds of things, such as bridges, rivers, oceans, gardens, farms, meadows and people. He noticed that the light gave different feelings to objects - sometimes happy and bright, sometimes peaceful, sometimes sad, and sometimes even scary. Claude would pay close attention to the way that the light changed the objects that it touched. What Claude loved more than anything was to observe different kinds of light - morning light, regular daylight, evening light, moonlight, starlight and even foggy light. If you want to remain always happy, always perfect and always fulfilled, then always keep inside your heart a pocketful of sweet dreams.‖ -Sri ChinmoyĬlaude Monet (1840-1926) was an artist who lived in France. Art is man‘s nature nature is God‘s art.‖ -Philip James Bailey The purpose of art is to transmit to others the highest and best feelings to which human beings have risen.‖ -Count Leo Tolstoy Empowering Children to Become World Harmony Builders
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