The faint impression
of a black rose at midnight:
real or imagined?
Underneath several layers of black paint (and quite a few layers of varnish) is a painting of a gold rose I didn’t like. Now that it’s almost completely black, I’ve decided I quite like the texture and the way the light catches the flecks of gold… I’m just not sure if it’s still a rose.
I’m currently working on an abstract landscape commission but the big reveal will have to wait until my client sees it. She has asked for it to be a surprise and so I can’t even post the WIPs here because there’s a very good chance she’ll see them.
During the meanwhile, here’s a poem I wrote more than twenty years ago that I rediscovered yesterday…
“Be yourself ― not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” Henry David Thoreau
This week’s Shoot it, Sketch it revisited is a little different. Rather than painting Black bird on a grey day again (which I was just about to do), I’ve used it as the inspiration for a haiku (prompted by blogger Digital Granny who thought the image would make a nice background for a poem). It’s my first ever haiku. It’s such a fascinating art form — I’ve been meaning to write one for ages. Thanks, DG.
Anna Cull ~ Art & Music 