Scratch That. I’ve Got Boats to Build.
“Boats to Build” 24×24, oil on canvas [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/boats-to-build/483361″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] After a few trying days, a long-distance friend sent me a link to a Guy Clark song with the assurance, “I promise it will speak to you”. I’ve never been too big on country music, but I followed the […]
The Metaphoric Pelican
“Memory Changing” 30×40 oil on canvas, $595.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/memory-changing/475095″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] It’s been a while since I’ve done an entire painting in a day. I’ve been taking my time lately. Lots of editing. I miss the thrill that is constant change. I miss the sense of completion. The moving on. […]
Two Years And Counting
After two years of painting professionally, I know less what kind of painter I am and what kind I want to be than I did in April of 2014. My world has grown. When it was smaller, everything was clearer, had a place. Now everything leads to something else. There are more possibilities than there […]
Day 30. Deep Breath.
Untitled. 6×6, oil on canvas, $105.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/untitled/444696″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] When I started this project I think I thought that by the time it was finished I would not only have thirty paintings that went with thirty poems, but that by the very last day I would have written a […]
Day 29. What Have I to Say to You?
“Honey-Thick Stain” 10×10, oil on canvas, $170.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/honey-thick-stain/444487″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] This poem begins with a question: What have I to say to you? It’s a question I ask myself often. What do I, the artist, have to say to you, the viewer? Here’s the answer: I’m not sure. I […]
Day 28. To the Right, To the Right.
“Sheltered at the Heart of Me” 18×24, oil on canvas, $350.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/sheltered-at-the-heart-of-me/444220″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] Everything you paint in a diagonal to the right. At this point, I’m not even ashamed of my really bad Beyonce reference. But I am noticing that there’s this little theme emerging in my recent abstracts where […]
Day 27. More Advice
“When the Tower Falls” 18×24, oil on canvas $350.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/when-the-tower-falls/443914″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] I love advice poems (see day 6). Especially when the advice is good. “Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?” by Ron Koertge Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. […]
Day 26. A Poem that Keeps Buzzing
“Debauchee of Dews” 6×6, oil on canvas, $105 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/debauchee-of-dews/443648″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] It’s the same poem from yesterday, but, as I mentioned I kept thinking about that bee. Bring Me the Sunset in a Cup by Emily Dickinson Bring me the sunset in a cup, Reckon the […]
Day 25. Where to Go When I’ve Got Nowhere to Go.
“Breadth of Blue” 20×20, oil on canvas, $340.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/breadth-of-blue/443350″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] Do you know what they hardest part of this thirty days has been? The poems. There are hundreds upon hundreds of poems that I love (or would love) but I have trouble finding them, reading them on […]