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Besides thinking of making more money, strengthening the relations, and treating your physical health, what have you decided to treat your mental health?
I am of the belief that in determining the goals of life we mostly neglect the time that could be used to energize the tired mind and give it a state of peace. It is because we are unaware of the fact that an energetic and positive brain nourishes better thoughts to prepare a better plan for the things to work out in a more proper way.
The New Year has laid the first stone of new aspirations and it is the perfect time to weigh up the year that has slipped now, what was common among all? Surely, being stuck at home in Quarantine for more than 8 months. And it was a Hobson’s choice to stay at home. Everyone must have struggled through to cope up with quarantine and tries to make it again and again.
I won’t say that Covid-19 is good but I must say that out of this disaster I got time to reflect on matters of interest that were buried long before under the responsibilities. A slept artist got cracking in me and drove the persuasion to get knock on effects…
My New Year resolution is to convert my passion into a profession.
When I was overwhelmed with collective trauma and a pulverized economy, the last thing that struck into my mind was, TO DO SOMETHIN ELSE. I got my hands on paint by number kit from an online store and stretched my arms and exposed myself to this genre of art.
What I got in the package?
It was a beautiful canvas of very fine quality with a pre-numbered surface. A sleek set of painting brushes (small, medium, large) and a set of labeled painting pots of depending colors. An instructional manual to make me understand the correspondence between the numbers and the colors. I got a wooden frame to display my first piece of art and believe me it motivated me to go more along with it.
It is said that , to get ahead you need to get started first and I was the one, had no knack of the work, just to refrain myself from the stress and ennui of the time, buried my head in painting by numbers and guess what? I got obsessed with the therapeutic effects and the core satisfaction of achievement that it becomes my passion to engage myself in colors and images that come up as my creation.
So, I decided to take my passion as my profession and work by leaps and bounds to nourish it and flourish it with all the adroitness I took in possession with these Paint by Number Kits.
You can say that Painting by numbers is my new year’s love. Because it has turned my colorless quarantine very kaleidoscopic and taught me to live a colorful life.
What Paint by Number kits are all about?
The process of pain by numbers always started with the picture itself, it is said by Sarah Robbins. It is DIY art that offers you to imitate the work of legends and wet your hands with the precious water of antiquity. Everyone is unable to afford the high priced painting of Van Gogh, Gustav, William Morris and many more. The manufacturers make them come-at-able for the ordinary people lacking the faculty learning in highly known art schools but have the artistic knack to stand prominent.
These kits help the amateurs and adults to learn the intricate details of painting and those professionals as well who want to refresh their skills of mixing and matching the colors and merging the lines between themselves.
Categories of Paint by Number Kits?
This PBN has become the nation’s mania because these kits cater to all the tastes. From the beginner’s level to the pro, these kits are formulated with various difficulty levels. Beginners are advised to start from the low difficulty level and then climb to the upper ones after getting the dexterity in strokes.
If you ask about the categories these kits are offering Floral, Love, Birds and Animals, Foods and Drinks, Animated, Super Heroes, Famous Artists, Famous People, Abstract, Vintage and Customized Paint by Number Kits, the most loved ones.
How The Kits Work?
The beauty lies in the simplicity and these kits are very easy to use.
The canvas is marked with lines and numbers and these numbers correspond to the given colors. This correspondence is instructed on a paper given with the components. The painter has to comprehend the sequence and then use the paint brush to fill the colors in the encapsulated areas by matching the numbers with the colors.
How are these PBN Kits affecting my personality?
To kill the curiosity who is wondering why am I supporting this painting by numbers to this extent, would be oblivious of the fact that how well I am doing out of it.
Ease and Accessibility
Without any prior experience, it was so easy for me to pick the brush and stroke with convenience on the canvas. It was the first reason that intrigues me to continue with this DIY art and take it as my hobby to spend leisure time.
Colors Theory and Therapy
By time, I learnt out the theory working behind the color combinations and blending of colors and I became clearer towards the shades, which go with this one and which do not. Other than this, a continuous interaction with colors gives my personality oomph as well as the calmness of mind.
Improves the cognitive approach
The systematic working that is required during painting by numbers gives coordination to mind and body and enhances the capacity of remembering details. It increases my focus level and lessens the mingled thoughts that astray the mind from the main object.
Helps in retaining the confidence
Being in the funk, I was about to surrender myself to the dejected time, this paint by number kit comes as a blessing in disguise for me and helped me revive my confidence level that was all shattered. I was spending my whole day lying on the couch and net surfing or watching depressing news on TV, these kits engaged me in doing something productive and creative. Those who are indulged in creativity know the contentment and boost in confidence when looking at the accomplishment and applause by others.
My Plan: I will make my own galleria with Paint by Number kits
In my new year resolution, the next step after adopting it as a profession, I will make my own paint by numbers gallery in which I will not only display the paintings I worked on but as a next step I will buy the plain canvas and other accessories but will sketch the lines and template myself and will paint in my own creations.
Advice for you:
In Spite of dreaming to be a painter, because you are scared of failing, just Do it. This is how you are going to overcome this monster of scariness. Celebrate the New Year with a new resolution of starting what you have never dared to do before. Turn the old pages down and pick new one, use the colors to fill these pages with incredible stories of learning, nurturing and compassionate yourself.
