This painting means a lot to me because it's the first I've done in a long time that I'm proud of at all. And it's the first I've used watercolor in a while; I've missed my baby! lol. The text on the "path" is from the poem.
Inspired by Charles Bukowski's The Blackbirds are Rough Today:
lonely as a dry and used orchard
spread over the earth
for use and surrender.
shot down like an ex-pug selling
dailies on the corner.
taken by tears like
an aging chorus girl
who has gotten her last check.
a hanky is in order your lord your
worship.
the blackbirds are rough today
like
ingrown toenails
in an overnight
jail—-
wine wine whine,
the blackbirds run around and
fly around
harping about
Spanish melodies and bones.
and everywhere is
nowhere—-
the dream is as bad as
flapjacks and flat tires:
why do we go on
with our minds and
pockets full of
dust
like a bad boy just out of
school—-
you tell
me,
you who were a hero in some
revolution
you who teach children
you who drink with calmness
you who own large homes
and walk in gardens
you who have killed a man and own a
beautiful wife
you tell me
why I am on fire like old dry
garbage.
we might surely have some interesting
correspondence.
it will keep the mailman busy.
and the butterflies and ants and bridges and
cemeteries
the rocket-makers and dogs and garage mechanics
will still go on a
while
until we run out of stamps
and/or
ideas.
don’t be ashamed of
anything; I guess God meant it all
like
locks on
doors.
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Beautiful use of color, so macabre yet rich and full of life. The sense of flow and motion in the trees really lends a surreal element that adds to that overall sense of mystery.
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your work throughout your gallery is incredible, but this is something else < 333
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You've done a good job here.
I'm not too familiar with art-related terminology, so here's a layman's critique:
The sky rocks.
The trees rock.
The bushes rock.
The cobbles rock. Though they may be steps. I like the poem's words on them.
The birds are lovely.
The trees ROCK.
The colours are gorgeous.
Might I ask why you've stopped painting? You don't have to answer; it was probably a very personal and important decision.
Either way: reconsider.
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