The Stories We Tell 🎨✍🏼📝

Writing, drawing, and painting are different ways of telling a story. A writer uses words to create a picture in the reader’s mind. An artist uses lines, shapes, color, and light to tell a story the viewer can interpret.

A writer may spend a paragraph describing an old house. An artist may capture it with a few strokes of a pencil or brush. One gives us the words to imagine it; the other gives us the image to interpret.

Someone writes about what happened. Another draws what they saw. And another paints how the moment felt. Years later, all three can tell us something about a time or place that would otherwise be lost.

Some stories remind us where we’ve been. Others allow us to visit somewhere we’ve never been.

Creativity doesn’t require the same language from everyone. Some people tell stories with words. Some with pencils. Some with paint. Whether we use words, lines, or color, we’re all trying to tell someone something.

The medium changes - The desire to tell a story remains