Rockford en Plein Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Rockford en Plein Air

original watercolor plein air of Rockford, Lancaster County: 10" x 12"

just keep tryin’, you say

so that’s what i do

not cease and desist

that’s never the way...

to break through the fray

you gotta hang tough

and paint every day

talent’s just not enough

BB

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RedHead Watercolors By Bertie Brown

RedHead

original watercolor sunflowers

what HO!

is it SO??

well not quite

you know

but i COULD NOT wait

in fact it was fate

that beckoned me thus

to BUY them and paint

and so here I am

content once again

though just for a bit

in sunny respite

so hasten on, JUNE

i’m beckoning you

to put on the moves

and get here real SOON!

BB

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Motif #1 Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Motif #1

original watercolor seascape: 8" x 10"

ve got the blues,

Sophie, me too

it’s still too cold

but what can we do

I think we’ll paint

a sseascape today

until those blues

they just go away.....

BB

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Sunshine 'n Sophie Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Sunshine 'n Sophie

original watercolor portrait: 10" x 14"

Sophie and Me

I remember the day

when Sophie was a babe

I imagined that we

would be best friends indeed 

she’d be 2, maybe 3

and I‘d be... 

well, older, you see

on an ordinary day

I saw us this way:

painting trumpets

horns and ‘bones

with bright colors

hues and tones

wearing paint stained artsy shirts

laughing while we did our work

eating crumpets

drinking tea

dressing dollies in pink jeans

we’d sing and laugh a lot

have long talks

as we walked

while my poems said all that

Sophie grew and that’s a fact

now we really have those talks

as we take our little walks

and we def’nitely agree

BFFs, we’ll always be!

BB

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Spring is in the Air Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Spring is in the Air

original watercolor home portrait: 10" x 14"

twas the night before “Stella”

and all through the land

the creatures were shopping

buying milk, bread and spam

the forecast rang true

that nor’easter barreled through

and those inches of snow

gave us all lots to do

so today as I search

for some good stuff to eat

finding bread, milk and ‘meat’

doesn’t sound like a treat

so the next time they cry

“Snowstorm Comin’ ”, i’ll buy

donuts, popcorn, french fries

 sparkling wine and moon pies….

BB *March Nor’easter*  ’17

Signaling Spring Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Signaling Spring

original plein air watercolor: 10" x 14"

just keep tryin’, you say

so that’s what I do

not cease and desist

that’s never the way...

to break through the fray

you gotta hang tough

and paint every day

talent’s just not enough

BB

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Posies & Posers Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Posies & Posers

original watercolor still life w/clarinet, flute, sunflowers: 15" x 17"

i keep pressing on

‘cause that’s what i do

to see what comes next

with a painting or two

there’s music, of course

and sunflowers, sure

with pitchers and more

a donkey of yore

it’s funny, you know

when themes just won’t go

and my artwork shows

my real life also

BB

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Classy Brass Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Classy Brass

original watercolor musical still life w/horn, trumpet, trombone: 11" x 14"

absolutely resolute

i’m absolutely certain

some truth is indisputable

and strictly put imputable

so don’t go all refutable

i don’t want your rebuttable 

that verbal hyper babbable

you’re so above reproachable

and also un-correctable

see that’s just irresponsible

and truly indefensible

we all could be sympatico

if y’all weren’t so emphatico

BB

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