This was my first painting. It was a self-portrait in the style of an artist named Chuck Close.

In this style, I started by drawing a single small square with a simple pattern. Then I would make a grid using the square with the pattern over the entire painting. The rule was that every time we would come to a line in the pattern, we had to change colors. This was the result.

When viewed up close, it doesn’t look like anything. Just a bunch of colors.

When you take the time to step back and look at it as a whole, all the little squares of color come together to make a completed painting.

I think our journey is a lot like this painting. We work tirelessly every day completing just one “square.” Sometimes we will work on the same “square” for days… weeks … months… sometimes even YEARS.

But each square is an integral part of a masterpiece we are painting together.

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