The fourth prompt for the October 31 Day Art Journal Challenge encouraged me to choose my favorite color and create a rainbow of it with all the various shades the color could produce. Anyone who knows me well will tell you that red is one of my favorite colors. I made up a rainbow arch featuring degrees of red with everything from pink, to salmon, to fuschia, to red, to orange. I then found the perfect poem relating to rainbows entitled "My Dream of Iris," by Mark R Slaughter. Iris is the goddess of rainbows as well as a messenger of the gods. The last stanza in the poem is my absolute favorite, so I put in right inside the arch of the red rainbow I created. It is a plea to Iris and reads:
"Take us on your wing to new endeavours -
Show that nothing in the ethers tempers you!
And every time you render us a rainbow,
See it fires a lust for zest anew!"
The art prompts are really ideal for people of all ages, and you might find some of them great for a family project. You might even want to suggest them to your kids if they are looking for something to do on a rainy day. You can find the prompts at Nicci.ca.
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