When life gives you lemons, draw them, 11 x 14 inches dry pastels, graphite on paper

"When life gives you lemons, draw them". (Nikki)

"...the painting has a life of its own. My mission is to bring forth this life". (Jackson Pollock)

"Trust your intuition, it's just like goin' fishin'; you cast your line 'til you get a bite." (Paul Simon)

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White Pine Bows

April 18, 2008

                  White Pine Bows, 20 x 34 x 1.5 inches Acrylics on stretched canvas

White Pine Bows, 20 x 34 x 1.5 inches Acrylics on wrapped canvas. Some paintings take a long time and change dramatically from start to finish…others have a clear direction and seem to flow out in a day, as this one did; sensing I need to quit while I’m ahead and not overwork it.

                White Pine Bows, 20 x 34 x 1.5 inches Acrylics on stretched canvas, just startedWhite Pine Bows, 20 x 34 x 1.5 inches Acrylics on stretched canvas, phase 2

Post-dated note: accepted in Visual Arts Society of Texas’ 125 Show July 24th - August 15, 2008.
January 2009: A poem inspired by White Pine Bows
by Debby Davis, Oct. 2008

Fragile notes fracture light into rainbow,
Bouncing branch to bough within stiff white pines,
finding my eyes uplifted; what a show!
Violinist gently pulls; taut bow whines.

Bouncing branch to bough within stiff white pines,
like the beat of an orchestra playing.
Violinist gently pulls; taut bow whines
raining harmonies; colors displaying.

Like the beat of an orchestra playing,
my thumping heart strings tug me into now!
raining harmonies; colors displaying,
I am an audience of one somehow.

My thumping heart strings tug me into now!
It is the secret that only I shall know.
I am an audience of one somehow.
Fragile notes fracture light into rainbow.

Categories: Seasonal, The Majesty of Trees, acrylic painting, exhibitions, semi-impressionist, summer, trees |

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