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; […]
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 […]