Day 12
“Ahead of Creation” 6×6 oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/ahead-of-creation/439869″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] Humming Bird by D.H. Lawrence I can imagine, in some otherworld Primeval-dumb, far back In that most awful stillness, that only gasped and hummed, Humming-birds raced down the avenues. Before anything had a soul, While life was a heave […]
“Dover Beach” 6×12, oil on canvas, $150.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/dover-beach/439493″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”blue” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering […]
Day 10. Hope is the Thing
“Hope is the Thing with Feathers” 10×10, oil on panel [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers/439160″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] “Hope” is the thing with feathers BY EMILY DICKINSON “Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at […]
Day 9. Do I Dare?
“Sawdust Restaurants with Oyster Shells” 10×10, oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/sawdust-restaurants-and-oyster-shells/438962″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] Here’s a slice of what a typical grocery store trip might sound like. Ezra: “Can we get peaches?” Me: “No. They aren’t in season.” Ezra: “What does ‘aren’t in season mean?’” Me: “It means they won’t […]
Day 8. Keeping it Simple.
“Petals on a Wet, Black Bough” 10×10, oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/petals-on-a-wet-black-bough/438713″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] In A Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowed: Petals on a wet, black bough. This abstract has been dancing around in my head ever since I […]
Day 7. Time for a Love Poem
10×10, oil on canvas The Passionate Shepherd to His Love By Christopher Marlowe Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the Rocks, Seeing the Shepherds feed their flocks, By […]
Day 6. Taxing, Tearing, Tugging at Art
“Consider” 24×24, oil on canvas $400.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/consider/438108″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] Advice to a Friend Who Paints by Kelly Cherry Consider shy Cezanne, the lay of the land he loved, its dumbstruck vanity, polite and brute. The bather in his sketchy suit. The skull upon the mute pull of cloth. In […]
Day 5. Water.
“So it is with You” 24×24, oil on canvas $400.00[creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/so-it-is-with-you/437801″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] When You See Water By Alice Walker When you see water in a stream you say: oh, this is stream water; When you see water in the river you say: oh, this is water of the […]
Day 4. Revealing.
“Not All Grace” 6×6, oil on canvas, $105.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/not-all-grace/437519″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”blue” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] The Kingfisher By Lisa Williams I wanted to see a kingfisher with its throat bound up in whiteness and its black crest aimed at clouds. I didn’t know what it looked like, not really. In poems and […]