poetry and painting

A beautiful poem, read wonderfully, can be an inspiration for a new version of art.
Just listen to Elizabeth Gilbert read Early Hours and I can guarantee that your mind's eye will see delicious images and feel.
A return to my favorite lake, although the leaves are now floating in the breeze rather than on the trees, beauty is everywhere. Repetition of scene can be your best friend. The scene is internalized and the feeling and the play become more important.

Deer Grazing at Sunset/unfinished

"As painter....we must always remember that our precious poetic visions and spiritual insight will remain forever locked within us until we can boil them down to a complex arrangement of a few hundred strokes or possibly even thousands of brushstrokes." Richard Schmid

Inch by inch this one has been creeping out of the marble dust board. Plein air painting has the vision before you. From that image you make your own. In this painting I am working more like the way George Inness did. I saw the vision, but now it is just me and the board with nothing but the vision to guide me (unlike plein air). It's hard. Poetic visions,...hmmmmm, are supposed to appear easy, like they just slid off you like water on a duck's back ....... This one has been scrubbed, sprayed, scratched, painted, and hundreds of layers of pastel... It still has more to go. Let's see who wins.....or finds peace.
I swear it's the best job in the world.