Recently I've finished a watercolour painting about a boy in a presentation surrounding by his classmates. I started to paint in a late afternoon when my toddler was sleeping. But I couldn't finish it at that time as my toddler woke up and cried when I had just done a little bit.
As I hurried to finish a few strokes before being able to tidy up the space, I'd left some mistakes on the paper. I felt very disappointed, and wanted to destroy the unfinished artwork. Fortunately I didn't make a determination to do that.
In the early morning of the next day, I woke up just before the sun rose. As usual , I wanted to find something to paint. I hesitated for a while for whether I should continue yesterday's work, or just throw the paper to a rubbish bin and start a new one. After a thought, I felt it too pity to throw it, or I might just be lazy to start a new one.
Surprisingly, after 1 finished the whole picture, it wasn’t looked that bad as what I thought it would be. It is true that these a mistakes were are still clearly there, but they are not as obvious as before, when the other parts of the picture had have been finished. I showed the picture to the boy whom I was painting.
"This is me .” He said merrily, “I am doing a presentation at school. But daddy, you’ve made a silly mistake as the white board marker holder in my classroom was is not at that location.” He hasn’t realised the mistakes I meant.
When we judge an artwork, we focus on the whole effect. When we judge a person, we focus on the main characteristic. Don't let a single mistake to stop finishing the whole artwork, just as never allow a mistake to stop what we should live!
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