Flowers In A Garden

One single flower cannot be used to make a garland. One tree cannot be called a forest and one house does not make a society. Many flowers must be used to make a garland. Acres of trees and bushes make a forest and collection of many houses make a village. The collection of many individuals is society. Man must remember this when he tends to be selfish and tries to outsmart others.

A selfish person tries to hoard only for his benefit and all his actions are motivated by selfishness. Such a person does not pause to think whether his actions hurt others or whether he is thwarting them. All that matters is personal ends. The means does not matter to him. Such behavior does not benefit the society of which he is a part.

Man forgets his own spiritual nature. He is after temporary and transient pleasures which make him forget that once he ages, then he will not have health to start a spiritual journey at that age. It will be too late to start and he shall pass away from Earth like an animal that will not be remembered for being kind or having any good quality.

The values of human life are great, among these, sacrifice is the main. If man wants to be permanently happy, then he has to sacrifice selfish tendencies and inculcate the divine qualities like love, selflessness, non violence and lack of ego.

With the body one must do- good work.

With the mind one must do-promote good thoughts.

Man has been given a healthy body so that he can be of service to others and he has been given a mind, a powerful mind which he should harness and control to use it to the maximum benefit to help others. By helping others, it does not mean that man loses. On the other hand God takes note of it and helps him when he is in the utmost need or trouble. A good deed never goes waste. Here is a small story to illustrate this.

A sick and lonely person was bedridden unable to even get up and brush his teeth. He became very emotional and sad that there was nobody to help him even to brush his teeth. Suddenly the door opened and a person with an aura around his head came in and started brushing his teeth as if he were a boy. The sick man was surprised and enquired about him. The helper replied that he had come to help because, he, the sick man had cleaned and washed a leper a long time ago. So he was repaying a debt of good deed. Then the sick man realized that the person who helped him was none other than God.

A heart of compassion is the temple of God. Therefore man must shed his selfish tendencies and consider everyone as his own, because one is only a drop in the ocean. Whatever one may earn unscrupulously will vanish sooner or later. We are all flowers in a garland stringed together by God.

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How to Paint Flowers - The Best Way to Begin is Botanical Art

If you are a flower painter who is often frustrated and disappointed by your finished painting, then you need to go back to basics and learn how to draw. Maybe you already have good painting skills, but if you don't know the basic principles of accurate observation and how to build up form through tonal value, you are wasting valuable time - and probably talent too.

How to Paint Flowers - The Best Way to Begin is Botanical Art

Learn how to paint flowers successfully by doing what I did. Learn how to draw. Botanical art is the best way I know of teaching you how to become an able and accurate drawer.

I love botanical art. I run botanical courses and workshops, and sell my flower prints around the world, but before I became a painter of flowers, I first learned how to draw them.

The skill of accurate drawing is vital to botanical art, a magical and increasingly popular art form that I love to teach. Botanical art has its origins in scientific illustration, whose aim is to impart knowledge. Before the advent of photography, the botanical illustrator was the lens of the camera, recording the natural world in all its astonishing beauty and complexity.

The basic principles of creating a believable 3D image on a 2D surface are exactly the same for both painting and drawing. For me the only difference is what you hold in your hand - a paint brush or a pencil.

Drawing and painting are like walking and running: one skill follows naturally from the other. After all, you learnt to walk before you could run, didn't you? First learn how to draw, and then move on to painting. And when you have mastered the skills of painting, then move on again, if you want to, to a more approximate, more impressionistic, more abstract style.

I think all painters should be able to draw competently and accurately - if they have to. Whether they choose to is a different matter. Of course, this is a purely personal opinion, but in its defence, I'd like you to name me one great painter who couldn't draw.

A full-time artist and tutor of botanical illustration, I run courses in botanical drawing and painting, as well as tutoring workshops both in the UK and abroad. Click here to learn more

My paintings are in many private collections, and I have had two solo exhibitions. My flower prints sell worldwide and I also write on botanical art for magazines.

My passion is observational drawing from the natural world. If you would like to join me on one of my courses or workshops, click this link now to find out dates and details http://www.mariannemcphie.co.uk

Marianne McPhie