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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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Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Lyrical Landscape Series by Bertie Brown

Lyrical Landscape

12 1/2"w x 10"h

A Spring Thing

Meadows bordering a grove of trees

Spreading a canopy

Of blues and greens

Sifting a symphony

Intense, yet serene

Of filtered though slight

Shimmering sunlight

The pathway to spring

Is a glorious thing...

BB’10

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Monday, March 1, 2010

Musically Inclined Series (Percussion) by Bertie Brown

Musically Inclined

14 1/2 "w x 14 1/4"h

Drummer’s Dilemma

There’s drums a-plenty

For the drumming fanatic

From the triplet set’s least

To the bass drum, that beast,

The choices never cease!

With notes so sporadic

And sometimes exotic

It can be hypnotic

But always drum-atic!

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Poppy Pizzicato Series by Bertie Brown

Poppy Pizzicato

image:6'w x 9"h

floated:16 1/4"w x 23 1/2"h

Poppies

Curvaceous long legs

Popping up from their beds

With ruffled petticoats flouncing

Such perky orange heads!

They do the Pizzicato Polka

It’s the right dance for them

As they twirl and spin around

On those curvy long stems!

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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Com-posers (Series) by Bertie Brown

Com-posers

10"w x 13"h

Bed Heads

Rain-drops are falling on the heads

Of all my sunflowers

Bursting up from their beds!

Soon, dancing in the aisles

They look down on me

With knowing smiles

And do the Jitter-bug hop...

Ahhh,

I never want them to stop!

Oh, happiest summer’s days

Under the season’s golden haze...

BB'09

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Lyrical Landscape by Bertie Brown

Lyrical Landscape

11"w x 14"h

Summer meadows

Smocked, calico print dresses

In pinks, yellows, greens and reds

Pastures of ruffled petticoats

Stitched delicately with yellow-green threads

Enveloped in bustling bee harmonies

Enhanced by birdsong melodies....

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Friday, February 26, 2010

Beach Hash by Bertie Brown

Beach Hash

10"w x 13 1/2h

Ghost Crabs

Harmless sand creatures

All top speed and scurry,

With quick stop and go features

As Porsche race cars in a hurry!

Playing tag, hide and go seek

All day long on the beach

With sand, sun, the sea....

And especially, me!

BB'10

(There may or may not

Be a crab in this lot

I really can't tell

'Cause they hide out so well

Under any old shell...)

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Busy Being Beets By Bertie Brown

Busy Being Beets

11"w x 14"h

Busy Being Beets

Sophie and I

Were shopping for clues

What could we possibly

Paint that is new

We passed by the eggplants

With nary a glance

We‘ve done them before

Those radishes next door

Were also a boor...

But then Sophie spied

From the corner of her eye

Red beets in a bunch

And she had hunch

Their leaves were so busy

Dancing this way and that

She said we should paint them

And work really fast!

We finished the painting

Our energy waning

We needed a nap

And knew it was time

To end this short rhyme...

BB’10

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