artist = a person who produces works of art. a public performer: actor, musician, singer, an artist of dance.I already told you that I've been feeling artsy lately. :)I think that it comes in waves with the changing of the seasons...it's almost like God just starts painting...oranges, reds, yellows...and it then inspires me and makes me want to mimic Him. :)I feel like I've gone through different seasons using different mediums that art has to offer...in high school it was oil painting...albeit not super aweseomely - but I loved it...the smell of the mineral spirits, the smoothness of the pallette and a blank clean canvas to create... :)in college it was drafting and drawing using lead and paper to create modern shapes and shadows...and now my favorite medium is obviously viewing life through a lens...a constant theme throughout my life has been the art of music...an escape...a release...an expression...to many different places using different colors to paint with...but I've been thinking about other forms of art...and how people express themselves through it...I can get chills watching a contemporary dance piece on sytycd...how they combine movement, lighting & music to simply paint.  it's just beautiful.or how a singer can weave and color your imagination using notes & melody and movement to paint scenes and new colors and emotions in your mind...or how a writer can take ordinary letters and words and paint them into vivid colors of red and yellow...beautiful.or how a graphic designer can combine imagery with typography to evoke such beautiful emotion...I think I will have a lifelong love affair with art.and I don't think I have the gift of words to express it quite right...tim said last night "words somehow fall short sometimes."and it's true...I think that is one of the reasons we need art...to express where words fall short.and for me...I'm simply copying my Father.like a kid who colors with crayons...whether it's painting, drawing, designing, singing, playing, snapping...I simply love it. :)and then, I wonder...what do you "paint" with?