Day 21. You Don’t Have to Be Good.
“Family of Things” 20×20, oil on canvas $340.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/family-of-things/442331″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of […]
Day 20. Warm, Fuzzy, Feelings.
“i carry your heart with me” 20×20, oil on canvas $340.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/i-carry-your-heart-with-me/442034″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] SOLD [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] BY E. E. CUMMINGS i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and […]
Day 19. Today.
Today was the day! As many of you know, not too long ago I started a website called Artists who Art, the aim of which is to help artist make art as often as they can by providing a weekly assignment to inspire them. I was so fortunate to have guest artist Melanie Morris create the […]
Day 19. Fire in My Hands
“Fire in my Hands” 24×12, oil on canvas $300.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/fire-in-my-hands/441473″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] When I was teaching, this was my favorite poem with which to start the poetry unit. I love the narrative, the imagery, the simple language my students could understand. We would talk a lot about the […]
Day 17. So Much Depends
“So Much Depends” 24×24, oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/so-much-depends/441077″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] Last night I painted at my first Mardi Gras ball. I’ve been painting more and more at these live events– it’s a joy and and a struggle. I’m not sure I’ve found my exact voice with these types of […]
Day 16. Field Guide to People
“Field Guide to People” 5×7 $105.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/field-guide-to-people/440841″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] When I read the poem below I started thinking about being a “people watcher.” And my friend Butch had just sent me an encouraging e-mail, part of which read, “You know, I can’t imagine better, more beautiful and meaningful pictures […]
Day 15. Hope is the Hardest Love We Carry
“Solitary Habit” 10×10, oil on canvas, $170.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/solitary-habit/440653″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] Found this little gem of a poem the other day. Hope and Love by Jane Hirshfield All winter the blue heron slept among the horses. I do not know the custom of herons, do not know if […]
Day 14. The Art of Losing
“Loss is No Disaster” 18×24, oil on canvas, $350.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/loss-is-no-disaster/440401″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] One Art BY ELIZABETH BISHOP The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. […]
Day 13. Pied Beauty
“Landscape Plotted and Pieced” 6×6, oil on canvas, $105.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/landscape-plotted-and-pieced/440063″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] “Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; […]