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Methods and Madness

Sometimes I paint fast and loose

Other times quite controlled

The subject decides the method

But each work has the same goal:

A painting that is successful

And beautiful to behold!

BB


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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Com-Posers Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown


Com-Posers
original watercolor sunflowers: top 15" x 17"
       bottom: 11" x 15

Finch Flies
oh, the finches frenzied flight
simply a stunning yet silly sight
their path a series of dips and scoops
lofty lifts and lyrical loops
all the while holdin’
their scrumptious find
the seeds that they’ve stolen
from your sunflowers and mine
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Monday, July 28, 2014

Com-Posers Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Com-Posers
original watercolor sunflowers: 9" x 12"

oh my girls
with their curls
gossip all the day long
giggles here
sniggles there
oh the secrets they share
‘she’s a lush’
then they blush
oh it’s all so unjust
when it comes 
to their chums
they tell all that they’ve done
so I must 
paint and just
let them gab without fuss
it’s in jest
I just bet
though I’ve got no proof yet
BB
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Com-Posers Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown



Com-Posers
original watercolor sunflowers: 9" x 12"

 Would you all know
If you do, just say so
What you possibly think
Could be in that drink
My Sunflower Saloon
Serves each day at noon?
It just seems to me
From what I can see
After drinking their fill
Of sunflower swill
 Are tipsy bumble bees
Some drunken butterflies
And finches on trips
of loops, dips and flips
As they try to fly
The straight narrow line
To their homes and their hives...
Oh I have a hunch 
It’s not Kool-Aid punch
That beckons this bunch

To come enjoy lunch!
BB
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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Com-Posers Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown



Com-Posers
original watercolor sunflowers

Posers in the Park
Here we come
Chargin’ to the park
we’re gonna get there real early
While it’s still pretty dark
Hey, hey we’re the ‘Posers’
We’ve got a lot of work yet to do
We have to sell ourselves all to you
So we better get hangin’
Ourselves in the Bertie Brown Booth!
BB'14
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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Com-Posers Watercolor Sunflowers by Bertie Brown

Com-Posers
original watercolor w/sunflowers: 11" x 15"

Eminent Domain
is eminent domain
something finches disdain
as they each stake their claim
to my sunflowers’ fame
don’t they have a clue
I have etiquette rules
they routinely eschew
behaving so RUDE
I’d tell them to flee
‘cause they’re making a scene
and a mess at my feet
spitting shells from their beaks
but they are rather cute
in their black and gold suits
and their hollers and hoots
sound like piccolo flutes!

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Sunday, July 13, 2014

The Dynamic Duo Watercolors by Bertie Brown

 Lyrical Landscape
original watercolor landscape: 10" x 10"
Dynamic Duo
original watercolor w/Bride and Groom: 8" x 8"

Harmo-nious Perso-nious
went out for a run 
this very fine day
had lots to be done
stuff that gets in the way
of some fun in the sun
but nature’s libretto
called out ceremo-nious
in pleasing vibrato
a sound tremolo-nious
twas something I sought to
experience in perso-nious
and when I got done
on this very fine day
from my run in the sun
I was all tuned up and completely harmo-nious
BB'14
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Trump Plaza Musical Motif Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Trump Tower
original musical motif watercolor w/ trumpet, sunflowers: 11" x 15"

if the trumpet can’t solo
he just won’t play
he takes his music
and stomps away
with a high whining sigh
he slumps in his case..
are you like a trumpet
or do you behave?

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Monday, July 7, 2014

Summer Solstice Landscape Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Summer Solstice
original watercolor landscape: 10" x 11" 

summer solstice
‘tis mid-summer to soon
what happened to June?
and July’s on the run
yet it’s hardly begun!
i don’t know about you
but I’m gonna assume
you’re distraught just like me
‘cause we love summer’s ease
i’m thinking we might
have to put up a fight
so when summertime ends
let’s begin it again
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Sunday, July 6, 2014

Motif by the Sea Seascape Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Motif By The Sea
original seascape watercolor/Motif #1: 12" x 12"

Motif #1
Floats, traps
Lobsterman snacks
Ropes, tacks
Fishing knick-knacks
Boots, slickers
Lobsterman knickers
WD 40
And duct tape, surely
All this and more
Behind windows and doors
Filling crannies and nooks
And hanging on hooks
So remember this stuff 
When you’re all in a huff
As you pay lots of bucks
For that Lobster you bought!
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Com-Posers' Companion Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Com-Posers' Companion
original watercolor sunflowers/horn: 8" x 15"

Goldfinch Grinch
My sunflower girls
Never use my sunblock 
Nor do they apply
 Suntan lotion a lot
They’re naturally golden
Their brown faces boastin’
Their fearless devotion
To sunshine in motion
But there are some days
They have to confess
A shot of pest spray
Would be their best bet
For shoo-ing away 
Gold finches of prey
‘Cause finches 
Are Grinches
As they yank pull and splay
The petals and bonnets
My sunflowers boast
In my poems and sonnets
Why couldn’t they just
Gather seeds without fuss.... 

BB
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