Gilligan's Skipper Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Gilligan's Skipper

original watercolor butterfly: 8" x 10"

Plein Air Posers

Sophie and I 

Are painting plein air 

Under bright sunny skies

On a day so fair

Our sunflowers primp and preen

While we apply the sunscreen

Then get right to work

As we quench our paper’s thirst

With lots of water, that’s our technic

‘Cause happy accidents are what we seek!

Bleeding colors, water marks

Lights contrasting with darkest darks...

Working quickly, we’re in a hurry

(We try not to worry

Will this be a keeper

Or one we will bury?)

Well, Sophie girl

What do you think

She nodded and smiled

And gave me a wink!  

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Happy Hydrangea Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Happy Hydrangeas

original watercolor: 9" x 12"

Lavender grace

A gentle place

For quiet thoughts 

And simple talks

A spot of tea

For you and me

Refreshed, renewed

We’ve work to do

So on we press

Inspired no less

By happi-ness

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not so ItsyBitsy Watercolors by Bertie Brown

not so ItsyBitsy 

watercolor spider: 5" x 7"

Practice makes better

But perfect?

Not ever...

Especially if painting

Is what you can do

You’ll prob’ly improve

But that’s questionable, too

My advice to you

Buy a BertieBrown work

'Tis the right thing to do!

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The View Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The View

original watercolor landscape: 8" x 10"

Cold Front

The windows I’m closin’

my sunflowers need  hosin’

it’s blisterin hot

not one cold spot

‘cept here by the door

of the freezer in the store

where I pretend to stock up

on creamsicle pops

but truth to be told

it’s just good to feel cold!

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The Bogger Bloggers Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The Bogger Bloggers

original watercolor w/turtles: 8" x 10"

The Blog....

Hey there mommy

Guess what Daddy

Grandma BB

Got accepted

To a website

Or a blogsite

Which is just

What Grandma BB thinks is great luck!

She’ll post paintings

That are waiting

To be purchased

By a merchant

Or collector

Art inspector

Or someone

 Who loves her work and wants to buy some......

She will prob’ly

Post our Ozzie

And that work she

Titled “Sophie”

She’ll work hours

Posting flowers

Music themes

And in between

Some landscape scenes....

Then we’ll wait here

Hope and pray here

That somebody

Sees her work there

And sends e-mails

With some details 

Of an order for

A work to fit their decor!

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Bouquet Daze Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Bouquet Daze 

original watercolor roses bouquet: 8" x 10"

Summer Bliss

My windows are open

Cool breezes are flowin’

My curtains are flirtin'

With the sill and the sash 

This is the way

A fine summer day

Ought always to be 

For two months or three....

Suites me perfectly

I bet you’d agree!

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RedWing Redux Watercolors by Bertie Brown

RedWing Redux

original watercolor RedWinged Blackbirds: 9" x 12"

Emily had a lot to say

Just like Edna 

St. Vincent Millay

Though she wrote in quite a different way

Her poems and prose

Fairly penetrate our souls

And nature-ally

Our birdies agree!

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The Spider Besider Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The Spider Besider

The Guest Request

original watercolor spider and snake" 9" x 12"

Sophie and I read

the book “Charlotte’s Web”

and we have a question

that’s been in our heads

the story goes thus:

a pig’s days are numbered

his time is soon up

it’s bacon for him

and pork chops well trimmed

his friend, Charlotte spider

and he reminisced,

a dark corner hider

and the pig she would miss

they thought up a way

this pig could be saved

could Charlotte the spider

convince his indictor 

a clever wordsmith

Charlotte started a web, 

spinning words, to wit,

 “some pig” it said

now everyone knows

how this story goes

the heartwarming end?

Charlotte saved her best friend

but we want to know

how a spider could spell

and though the pig lived

he never did tell!

so of course we would go

to her web to word show

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The WS RedWings Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The WS RedWings

original watercolors red-winged blackbirds: 9" x 12"

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

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