Home Sweet Home Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Home Sweet Home

original landscape watercolor: 6" x 9"

another small work

with minimal quirks

and colors that sing

hey... that’s no small thing!

these petite suites today

have plenty to say

if you like what you see

you can buy two or three!

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Cafe au Lait Still Life Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Cafe au Lait

original still life watercolor in sepia w/violin: 9" x 12"

it’s relative-ly

a new work, you see 

with something that’s old

carnival glass, I'm told

and some that are new

a violin askew

borrowed from yet

a past series set

hmmm...

it’s deja vu

for the pears in there, too

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Com-Posers Collection Sunflower Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Com-Posers Collection

original watercolor still life w/sunflowers: 11" x 14"

A Pleasin’ Reason for the Girls in Season

You’re probably bored

After all you’ve endured

These paintings of girls

And their golden curls

They do love to preen

In their gold and green

They freely admit

They’re a bit narcissist

So I stay the course

With no due remorse

Posting these pix

‘Cause they still insist

They must know the drill

The need they fulfill  

Their beauty will fade

As cool winds invade

So as the fall season

Begins that’s the reason

I post and I hope

 The paintings are pleasin’

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Cool Dudes Com-Posers Sunflwer Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Cool Dudes Com-Posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 9" x 12"

what ho
Sophie and I 
just want to know
who turned off the heat
and dimmed the lights low
where are the wool socks for our feet
our sweater sets and turtlenecks
who said summer could retreat?
we are cold and so distressed
why can’t winter last one week
it’s time I guess
to hibernate until next June
and we both hope
that comes real soon!
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The Little Red Table Watercolors by Bertie Brown

The Little Red Table

original watercolor still life w/table, sunflowers: 8" x 11"

Home Sweet Home

original lanscape watercolor

Sophie and I know

that sometimes it’s best

to simply allow

a painting to rest

it may not be done

though there are intense

and beautiful hues

that seem to make sense...

so we must ensure

the painting’s success

each work must secure

it’s soulful-ishness

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Blue Mood Musical Motif Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Blue Mood

original watercolor still life w/violin: 11" x 14"

now Sophie and I

 are listening to

jazz and the blues

on Sophie’s i-tunes

it’s time that we stray

from classical ways

Mozart and Bach

are great but we’ve got

to broaden our view

with music that’s new

and violins can

 play blues with the band!

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Salient Sunflowers Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Salient Sunflowers

original watercolor still life w/sunflowers: 11" x 15

my sunflower deli

has at long last closed

the frailty of my girls

is sadly exposed 

gone are the bonnets

framing their faces

like Emily’s sonnets

they’ve fallen from grace

their once dripping nectar

has all been drawn

their glorious beauty

vanished, gone

the busy bumble bees

have packed their suitcases

backpacking butterflies

have flown to new places

has anyone noticed

those feisty goldfinches

have suddenly fled

good riddance, you grinches!

so farewell, Golden Girls

of this i am certain

it’s that time of year

to draw summer’s curtain....

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Rhythm 'n Blues Still Life Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Rhythm 'n Blues

original watercolor still life w/bottles, bowl, shells: 11" x 14"

it’s relative-ly

a new work, you see 

with something that’s old

a shape big and bold

and some that are new

with int’resting hues

borrowed from yet

a past series set

hmmm...

it’s deja vu

for those rhythm 'n blues!

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Rhythm 'n Blues Musical Motif Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Rhythm 'n Blues

original musical motif watercolor w/horn, trumpet: 11" x 14"

brass blast

would a trumpet 

be a strumpet

if he played a loose lipped jig

while his brother

played another

more pretentious tight hipped gig

would a trumpet

eat a crumpet 

while he played a high brow gig

could a strumpet 

be a pundit

if she shed her platinum wig?

would a trumpet

and a strumpet 

wear a 5 inch high heeled shoe

could a crumpet

 clog a trumpet 

if it got stuck in his tube?

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Trio Trouble Watercolors by Bertie Brown

Trio Trouble

original watercolor w/trumpet, horn, trombone: 8" x 10" 

 Com-Posers

original watercolor sunflowers: 10" x 10"

Sophie's Circus Dog

original crayon drawing by Sophie

Sophie says

BB what’cha doin’?

BB says

lookin’ all around

and this is what I’ve found

the fact is this

I’ve made a list

of those I love

you’re tops on it!

you’re cute and smart

with lots of heart

you’re surely set

for much success

and though I know

braggadocio

is not allowed

I’ll not be cowed

I post your pix

on FaceBook now

I’d make netflix

if I knew how

the po’ms I write

are not contrite

inspired by you

they’re posted, too

I’ve lots to say

about the ways

PopPop and I

are mesmerized

you’ve surely grown

and filled our home

with happy-ness

you are the best

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In the Key Of Sea Still Life Watercolors by Bertie Brown

In the Key of Sea

original watercolor still life in indigo: 12" x 12"

oh to be

by the sea

on a day such as this

would it be 

could it be

just the ultimate bliss....

treasures free

there’s no fee

in the ocean abyss

and these finds

so sublime

become still lifes of mine

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