Love Inside the Lines
As with most of us, when I was a child and given a coloring book, I was always told, "You need to color inside the lines!". I mean, it makes sense. Part of the beauty of art is seen in a certain amount of order and symmetry. In order for some things to be recognizable the way we tend to see things, the colors stay within the applicable borders. Puffy clouds in the blue sky are recognizable because the white is in the clouds and the sky remains blue. In the spring, greens stay within the lines of the shapes of "leaf" in order for the leaf to maintain it's 'leafness' and be seen as leaf. The Designer and artist seems to have been intentional with such things. When the boys were small, they were allowed to play in the back yard as long as they stayed inside the fence. They could play in the front yard as long a they didn't go past the sidewalk. My oldest compliant child didn't get close to the edge of the sidewalk. My unique middle child w