smoke from neighbours fires
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Alpine Adventure - A Watercolour painting
A striking scene
of distant sunlight
dances snow meadows,
forming a foreground
in liquid verdant tones.
Mountains shrouded in mist
wash eerily down the hillside.
A mix of browns
dropped into greens
bleed with blues.
Wet in wet,
colours spread,
pooling, splaying, absorbing as one.
My brush strokes
diffuse paint,
unpredictably exciting
as textures flow.
Inhibitions cast aside,
the courage to create
oozes from within,
my heart ignites,
light and shade play.
I enter my painting,
crunch through the snow,
watch a flock of bleating sheep
trudge a path to the farmstead,
feeding time.
I follow a frozen stream
snaking silver down the hillside.
From snow covered cottages
the smell of log fires
fumes a frigid sky.
Snow weighs heavy on branches
of overlapping pine forests
enveloping mountains and valleys.
Sharply defined shadows
of clear transparent hues,
a purity of pigment,
the glaze of colour on colour
brings my scene together.
I bask under white snow peaks,
the translucence of the unpainted
glows amid muted tones.
Luminosity catches my breath
of images placed upon this paper.
They seize the eye,
forever holding
the readers gaze.
of distant sunlight
dances snow meadows,
forming a foreground
in liquid verdant tones.
Mountains shrouded in mist
wash eerily down the hillside.
A mix of browns
dropped into greens
bleed with blues.
Wet in wet,
colours spread,
pooling, splaying, absorbing as one.
My brush strokes
diffuse paint,
unpredictably exciting
as textures flow.
Inhibitions cast aside,
the courage to create
oozes from within,
my heart ignites,
light and shade play.
I enter my painting,
crunch through the snow,
watch a flock of bleating sheep
trudge a path to the farmstead,
feeding time.
I follow a frozen stream
snaking silver down the hillside.
From snow covered cottages
the smell of log fires
fumes a frigid sky.
Snow weighs heavy on branches
of overlapping pine forests
enveloping mountains and valleys.
Sharply defined shadows
of clear transparent hues,
a purity of pigment,
the glaze of colour on colour
brings my scene together.
I bask under white snow peaks,
the translucence of the unpainted
glows amid muted tones.
Luminosity catches my breath
of images placed upon this paper.
They seize the eye,
forever holding
the readers gaze.
New Year 2012
in my mirror
blackbirds on bare branches
chirping in the year
a new era
watching the last sunset
of a passing year
new year dawn
the neighbours still
heading home
new year dawns
pain sinks deeper
with the last sunset
new year party
unwanted christmas gifts
rehoused
new year parties
strangers kissing strangers
all over the world
new year countdown
champagne corks pop
hands holding hands
people gather
embracing the past
into something new
countdown
a breath between today
and tomorrow
countdown
smiling from one year
into another
new year
hoping for more
of the same
new year fireworks
a grey january day
sparkles
new year
daffodils
green shoots
Christmas Haiku
christmas morning
the cat reflects pouncing
on a bauble
christmas
the cats claws
on the tree
christmas day
a family celebration
in a red bauble
windy christmas day
pine needles fall
on the toilet floor
windy christmas
fallen pine needles
decorate presents
christmas day
the cat claws the tree
jingling bells jingle
christmas morning
the cat claws the tree
confused
christmas day
a path paved to
the tree
christmas day
the gift of
gifts
in a corner
of the sitting room
a forest
in my chair
fallen pine needles gather
logs glow
cooking dinner
flavours of christmas mingle
with joyful faces
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