Plein-Air
burnt umber raw umber
Payne’s grey
Take off my glasses
landscape blue blur of green
dot: brilliant yellow
lichen layers smear on rock
cobalt blue cadmium yellow
lamp black Chinese white
Do you have a rock to show me?
Alizarin Crimson
the artists are painting
ocean, rocks, white frame cottages with heavy green doors
Rosa Rugosa–pink petal swirl
wild iris
they mix their greens & purples
add white and black to red
tins of water–a spritz here There.
paintings alive, breathing–unfinished
capture the light: its shadows, how
it slants, blinds, shimmies
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Love this, love this, love this! You speak my language..I loved living on your palette for the duration. and for painting outdoors with you and the live capture of light! Thank you for your poem!
Don’t you just love all the painting needs nomenclature too!👩🏻🎨
This brings me right back to late nights painting and trying to mix that exact right color! You’ve blended your words quite beautifully here.