So let’s paint North America here. First start with the outline. There you go. And then do a nice little wash of brown across the frontier of it. Dabs of blue here and there. All unspoiled.
Now let’s draw in the borders.
Oh, it looks like it’s pretty hard to draw the borders. The brushes are meeting with a little resistance here. Just dab the brush in whiskey and small pox and then let’s mix a little burnt teepee and burnt wigwam with some Indian red. There you go. Now the borders are being drawn nicely. Just remember, there are no mistakes. Just happy accidents. Now let’s give the whole country a whitewash here just like we did last week when we painted Europe. There you go.
Now let’s clean our brushes.
Oh dear. I can’t seem to clean these brushes. They’re too dirty. I’ll have to get new brushes. Oh there’s aren’t any new brushes. Okay, let’s keep painting with the dirty brushes. Everything will just look like it has a little blood on it.
The natural opposite of red on the colour wheel is green so let’s use that. Paint a lot of green in American. Not the tree kind, the money kind. Let’s get rid of this lake, and this forest, and this forest, and this forest, and this lake, and this river. Let’s paint a little dam here and a city here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Now let’s mix in some other colours up from down south and let’s add some colours from two weeks ago when we painted Africa. That’s right. Oh those colours are clashing. Let’s add more so that they get along. It’s not happening. Okay. Well, let’s do what we can. Okay, now let’s focus on making our painting better. It’s sort of a mess right now. Okay, now let’s paint the towns and let’s make the cities a little bigger to show that things are going well. Okay, it seems like we’ve run out of green. No worries. We’ll just borrow some from the time we painted the World Banks. Oh it looks like we’re going to need to borrow a lot. Okay, now let’s stop painting in acrylic and start painting with oils. Gosh, it’s getting hard to see the painting with all the different colours. The painting isn’t looking too stable.
Hm. Let’s start over.
Paint a little happy mushroom cloud over here and then another one over here. If you use one of the fan brushes, it’s easy to paint a whole lot of them. Keep going. Now smear those around so they look like the ground. Now add a lot of white like there’s been a long winter. Now wash your canvas.
Okay, now that we have a new canvas, let’s draw North America again. Here’s the outline. And here’s lots of forest green. And here’s lot of clear blue. And here are the mountains. And here are the rivers. And here are the animals coming back. But no humans. No people.
And no borders at all.
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