Composing, Conducting, and Coloring

Summer is finally here! I was outside today, enjoying the sunshine and blue sky and some of my favorite summer songs. Near the top of my list is the ENTIRE soundtrack to The Little Mermaid. So my current artsy-type project is in honor of that:  

Right panel of "The Little Mermaid II"

I have a coloring book of Disney scenes that were painted by Thomas Kinkade - much like the cross-stitch I did this spring. The thing I love about these pictures is that they are actually divided into three panels. So the image you see above is the far right side of the painting, and there are two other pages that complete it. I'm working on coloring all three at the same time, as my early-summer project.

I've decided to use three mediums: pens, pencils, and crayons. So you can see I've outlined the whole picture with thin pens, and I've started to fill in parts of it with colored pencils. My plan is to use several blue crayons for the lagoon water, to give it another dimension. We'll see how it turns out!

Outlining is tedious, but I love the effect it gives, don't you? It reminds me of the "percussion" that Sabastian begins his concert with, a simple baseline. I like the way he is perched on a rock in a waterfall, conducting the sounds of nature to create the mood and rhythm of the whole scene. And do you see his smile and the joy in his eyes? That reminds me of my Creator, and the expression He surely had on his face as he created stars and starfish, plants and planets.

I think He must have taken incredible joy and pride in everything he created with just a spoken word. I wonder if He held up his hands and conducted as birds and frogs and whales found their voices, as the wind played on reeds, and waves crashed together, and the leaves and branches whispered in mighty trees. I wonder if He closed his eyes as he carefully tuned the cricket's wings and the river's current. He decorated lagoons to be romantic, he designed canyons to take our breath away, and he made the hills come alive with the sound of music.

What a composer, what an artist He is!

Currently listening to "So Will I (100 Billion X)"