Sunday, July 04, 2010

The Message

Close ups



Oil on 5x7 hardboard.

This is my submission to this week's WDE at Wet Canvas. Elizabeth supplied the photo.
Elizabeth also issued a challenge: To write a poem to go with your painting.
In the spirit of the WDE challenge, I tried to come up with a poem ( I'm no poet...now everyone will know it ).

"Sweet words put to paper,
How like you are to me,
To brush strokes laid on canvas,
Bearing souls to see
."

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24 comments:

  1. Dean, this is absolutely beautiful, truly. I love everything about it! Suddenly, I picture Mary Shelley at her desk writing Frankenstein...or some of the other women writers of old...the romance, the history...Beautifully composed photo you had to work from too! (And I like the poem, too!)

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  2. Dean you did a great job on both the painting and the poem.

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  3. How brave you are to take up such challenges. And it cannot turn out better than this! Cute poem too!

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  4. Hi Sherry...Yes I can see how this subject matter could conjure up thoughts of Shelly and her great story!

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  5. Thank you, Lokelani! Good to "see" you here. :)

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  6. Some of the challenges really make me break out "in a sweat", so to speak. But they often enliven me by pulling me out of my comfort zone!

    Thank you for you kind word, Marie.

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  7. Dean, Beautiful painting. thanks for the close ups. Makes me want to go paint something.

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  8. Beautiful painting - and poem - Dean.

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  9. Dean, this is great! I especially like that metal ink jar!

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  10. Very elegant, Dean - beautifully painted. A great poem too.

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  11. Ha Dean! Great poem to go with this beautiful painting!

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  12. Thank you, Angela...Grab those brushes and make the paint fly! LOL.

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  13. Thank for stopping and the kind words, Claire.

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  14. Thank for stopping and the kind words, Claire.

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  15. Hi Deb...Thanks. That ink bottle was a strange collection of colors. That what made it interesting.

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  16. Hi Edward and Liz...I enjoyed the painting as well as the challenge to come up with a poem. Veeeery interesting.

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  17. oh so now you are a writer too! Is there nothing you can't do! Well, I love both. The ink well just blows me away. TOP NOTCH

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  18. Love this, a gorgeous work. I knew you were a romantic, the poem is wonderful too.

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  19. Hi Celeste...Thanks for commenting! Poetry is far too hard on my little noggin.

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  20. Thanks, Barbara...So nice to "see' you.

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  21. This has a nice feeling about it dean - very nice. Not a bad poem either;-)

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  22. Hi Dean!.... The painting as always... is of the highest calibre... and the poem?

    "You" sell your Self short Dean! This "exposed" form... has all the same colour... structure and appeal of your usual choice of expression!

    Good stuff Dean!

    Good Painting!
    Warmest regards,
    Bruce

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  23. Dean, amazingly refreshing work here is a feast! The beauty is to look at the close ups and feel the finer nuances,, brilliant. Cute poem to with it too!

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  24. Excellent! Painting and words, both.
    Am loving your oils. luscious.

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