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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.




watercolor on illustration board, 14x22"

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:iconzelavon:
Very well done! I love this pic!
:iconjabberpocky:
Wow. That's all I can say. o_o
:iconimold:
Oh my god. How do you paint like this? I'm so jealous!
:iconthelastnocturne:
absolutely stunning...... :is absorbed into the screen:
your work throughout your gallery is incredible, but this is something else < 333

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:iconoddlyaromatic:
Bukowski is the shit.

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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:iconmalika:
Oh man, I love the way you did the poem on the steps!

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:iconfrozenskyiii:
man hektic shit it realy koolz it lyk it alot

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:icongoblinqueeen:
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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"There was nothing in the dark that wasn't there when the lights were on." ~ Rod Sterling The Twilight Zone
:iconchaosarashi:
love the twisted trees

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April 20, 2005
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Apr 20, 2005, 11:05:29 PM

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