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(5x7)I've had the page of watercolor studies propped up in my room and was about to file them away as is, then thought, since I haven't been painting, I'd just go at them with Japanese watercolor pens and watercolor pencils--for practice and since there was nothing to lose.
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Came upon one of my favorite poetry anthologies today, What Book!? Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop, and it opened, of course, to the poem I always turn to when I open it, a poem by Gary Snyder--who I heard read at Stockton State College in South Jersey (can it be?) thirty years ago, when I was a senior in high school--called "Earth Verse."
What a wonderful, succinct little poem. And the photograph is stunning!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful paintings,just beautiful
ReplyDeleteGood ole Gary Snyder.
ReplyDeleteI love what you created here! and the poem is just perfect! Stunning colors. Sometimes, I think when we're not worrying about every meticulous thing, we're freer and do wonders--you sure did here!
ReplyDeleteIt's so fun to see what YOU do with those brushpens! I'd never think to do landscapes with the pens---so glad to see you doing them.
ReplyDeleteNice poem, too.
Not worrying ... and struggling a bit too. I struggled with watercolor pens--couldn't/didn't spread the colors fast enough; couldn't/didn't get them to blend ... hence the addition of the pencil. But the pens do add that intensity!
ReplyDeleteCheck out a poem by our new poet laureate, Kay Ryan, "Patience" on Sharon's blog, the Flat Sound of Wooden Clogs.