Randoms from God?

Man, was that a stinker today! So hot lah! After HOngas awesome surprise last nite took much effort to peel myself from bed but was excited to see Genie today. The gp (game plan) was to do some drawing at 9am at cultural centre. The Brisbane transport delivered me half an hour later than desired to the destination…so ran up the cultural centre stairs and found no Genie waiting – to my horror. Ok, ill just mope here for half the day, upset with myself for not getting organised faster, but continue the legacy of sketching the whales outside the museum.

Yay!! Praise God. Genie had missed her bus and was staring at me wide-eyed with forgiveness for making me wait for her for so long…

The two of us had a few ‘D and M’s about life in general then starting sketching away at the moaning whales. Then *kabam* out of no where pops this random scruffy looking dude shouting “You’re using the wrong pencils and wrong paper!!”. “Oh, great i thought to myself, another nut from Southbank…”

He then grabbed my sketchpad had a quick look at my drawing and said “it’s not bad but the composition is wrong and the whale should be in the centre”. Hmm good advice , kept listening and he pulled out a fountain pen from his pocked and scribed half a dozen names of artists in awesomely, decorative, old-school, font-like handwriting. This guy continued to give us tips for art and finished by saying “the reason why i took time out to talk to you was because Pietro Annigoni (one of the artists’ names) taught me for nothing. Annigoni wouldn’t take on even someone who offered him a million dollars but a person with real talent. I will take you on if you do six months training at Annigoni school”. Then he briskly scooped up his satchel bag and went on his way.

OKay……

Another random with a son asked directions for the art gallery as we told him what had happened. He had a look at the names and said that the man gave you a good list. Then gave us his website for his art.

Turns out the first dude is a master painter and fresco artist, Brisbane’s most trained life drawer (or something to that effect). Yes, i know, never judge a nut by its cover..im sorry. The second man turns out to be a funky landscape artist.

Genie was quite surprised by these unusual encounters but we were very inspired nonetheless. Okay, God has once again answered one of my prayers. Thank you! God Himself never ceases to inspire me…

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