“Light Dances Lively”
My friend Caroline gave me a wonderful photo of a river in Western Maryland and I painted several pieces from the one image. This painting is focused on using scraped and saved whites on the birch trees to direct the viewer into the darker places in the painting. I tried to use really loose brushwork to capture the jumpy movement of the water as it ran across the river rock. This painting is all about movement. The poem is sort of a hybrid of a Haibun, two Tanka poems with a piece of prose in the middle. Enjoy