Sunstream

Painting I did (finally) for my daughter's birthday. I love how the sun appears to be cutting clear through the forest to touch the ground. It's almost passionate. I'm still working on technique ... this is something that I might decide to learn through lessons in the future. But for now, I'm happy just discovering what my limits are. 

This is another one I truly had difficulty letting go. But I know I can visit it anytime I want (and my daughter too! :P)

Samples for a mural

Three paintings that I quickly did up for work. I have been commissioned to paint a mural on one of the walls and needed to provide a few samples for selection. Still working on a couple to submit. 

I ADORE the beach/water one. Took me the least amount of time and it just feels like something I'd love to jump right into. The other two are peaceful to look at, but the colours in the beach one just bring me something that I cannot put a finger on. There is a feeling of calmness and happiness that swarms the mind and makes whatever is going on in my life that's upsetting, somehow okay. I need a larger one like this for my wall. lol Maybe I'll do a mural at MY place. :)

Alone

When life was young and everything new

And the sky was always a powder blue

Days were long

And all birds’ song

Illuminated love’s beauty true

The veiled light of her aura fell into my room early

Shaking me from dreams

As from her streams

All of tomorrow’s gain was like a stain

A stain on the heart of trust

Inside the dark there is a quiet peace

But nothing shivers like the cold of oneness

Thoughts get carried but never reach a destination

In the aloneness of morning

A voice is summoned, but barely heard

As its resonance breaks the shattered pieces

Until they no longer resemble life

Reflections only seem to magnify the hold

A heart stretches, looking for relief

Or truth in what it knows but cannot feel

There is a solidarity in being wordless

But at the cost of an essence that screams for release

Trapped, it struggles to break free from

Netting that holds its core in superficial conviction

There is a depth that the surface cannot comprehend

Inside a hollow that fills the soul

Life is seemingly less in control

Destiny knows wings and flies

When time proves difficult to try

And all that’s left is this oneness

A soft and breezy air in morning light

Sometimes enough, is more than a heart can stand

And there is loss within the darkness of being lonely            

Forgive me

Autumn Leaves

 

For the Autumnal Equinox (Sept. 23, 2011)

The autumn leaves of green-turned red
Cascade through fragrant air
Spilling to earth in silent flight
While homes stand lost and bare

Blank, the sky, in pinkish hue
Filled with the escape of birds
Delivers us the sun-swept view
Untrapped by any words

Adorned in Autumn’s deepest charm
The ground prepares its slumber
Tucked away in protective sheets
Of shades in countless number

Almond bark and cinnamon
Burn pleasant in woodsy scent
Telling tales of winter’s march
When Autumn leaves are spent

My Moon

Iridescent moon, spilling light
into the naked air of my room
With shimmering milky fingers
your draw is so complete
You absorb me as though I could dissolve
into the tiny fraction of peace
you allow the clutter of my soul

Your radiance softens the edges of disquietude
and bearing all things
you carry moments in your arms
from which glitter is scooped
and furnished into dreams,
then littered like fairy dust
across the sleeping world

My love intensifies
with each phase of your joy
until full, you overflow the sky
splashing down until the earth is drenched
in the blush of your majesty

 ~ * ~

I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it ~ Albert Einstein

Auburnesque

Oh how I wish I had had more time for this one. It was a wedding gift, and of course, I left it too late. :( So in the rush to finish it, I am not 100% satisfied with it, (I know; how unusual for me). :P

Still, I LOVE the colours in this. The inspiration came from a friends deviant art post. It was a photograph taken somewhere in Peterborough and I fell in love with it. It seems so ... dusky and mysterious. Anyway, the couple loved it, so I guess I'm okay with it for now. Will try another one of these when I can spend more time on it.

For now, I'm going to try and do up some quick paintings for a showing maybe. ;) Hopefully I'll be able to get on here more to post them. Thanks to my pal, John Carter for coming up with the title of this. It fits perfectly!

Enterprising ....

Something I did as a little project for my place of employment. 

Although very enjoyable, this took almost too long to finish. Couldn't quite get the colours right. Or the shading. I'm out of practice. :P Situated in the new place now, so there should be much more time for painting. :)