Yesterday I was painting in Camden, Maine at a very familiar location. I am getting ready for my annual Maine workshop. This years workshop I am teaching transparent watercolors, opaque watercolors and oils so it will be quite the interesting schedule but I am so up for it. I spent the day working on opaque watercolors and after realizing I had left most of the required colors at home in my studio, I finally got back in the game and started to paint. This is not a very interesting scene and it takes some looking to come up with a good concept and composition. I wanted the lake to really be the star of this piece and it is painted with Cheap Joe color Sky Blue and Titanium White.
12×16 opaque watercolor 300lb arches block
Just Another Field Poem by me
At first glance there was nothing to paint
It was boring an excuse to drive on
Cow torn field, late summer trees
Greens losing their shine
One boring lump of a mountain
Colors gray, falling victim to the distance
Predictable blue sky, a few clouds
A lake ringed with tall unmanageable hedge weeds
Exasperated
Been there done that
But standing in the moment
Breathing in the present
Looking for a reason to stay
Engaging all of me
Locking away the superficial, the cynic
I see the shock of green across the lake
Calling my eyes to see
It’s neighbor
The beautiful lake
A blue, the color of the Queen’s jeweled ring
Lavender grays and orange mix with the steadfast hedges
There tips of opal leaves reflecting light
And the little field flowers peek through the weeds
Softly calling don’t forget about me
Ah!
A beautiful painting and now a master wordsmith! 🙂
Thanks but I would probably say I am a potential poet but hardly in the master category. Thanks for noticing