The Artpart - Vivid Vote

by CAROLYN TOLPO SMITH
Sun Columnist

As a rainbow of brush stokes would paint a picture, soon voters will vote ballots and by hand render the government. By Election Day, November 4 this year, the mix of issues, parties, and candidates in all their colorful variety will have survived the scratch of scrutiny, kneading, scraping and blending like a palette knife on a political palette. The remaining colors will take their place toward a creative harmony boldly painted with a brush load of ballots and each voter choice. Like the colorful arching order of rainbows experienced across the Hawaiian Islands, they picture a sort of social display at the end of Election Day, in this case totally American, harmonized to a vibrant unity.

 Unity energizes an artpart that links to harmony and similarities that we all can experience in everyday life as well as the Arts. Art, whether film, music, dance, poetry or painting, distills and makes links—also a valuable life skill.  Exploration of unity and other deceptively simple co-worker elements synchronize in the book Beauty Secrets For Life.   Found at www.cafepress.com/artbeautyshop online, the book invitation to play such connections highlights those already there and noticeable everyday, even on Election Day.

 In colorful politics, life or paint, such colors—swirling engagements as shown in the palette art here— while unique and not identical, share qualities to create situations that can work as complimentary, cohesive, or cooperative.  Each special hue works pathways that unify, in this case vote by vote, to resound like a marvelous mural.  The test of time eventually tells a masterpiece and its reach.  Now, political color collaboration casts its brilliant tone— in Election Day-vote-painterly style— via participants at the polls and a collective vivid vote.

Art by Carolyn Tolpo Smith of C. Tolpo Studio/Honolulu listed in Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Catalog of American Portraits includes Hawaii State Portrait of Governor John A. Burns. Her book objective at www.cafepress.com/artbeautyshop leads The Artpart columns since 1997. Studio: (808) 395-8455 Website: www.tolpohawaiiart.com.