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 […]
Day 3. Classic.
“Upon a Pile of Wind” 36×28, oil on canvas, $975.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/upon-a-pile-of-wind/437209″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] High from the earth I heard a bird; He trod upon the trees As he esteemed them trifles, And then he spied a breeze, And situated softly Upon a pile of wind Which in a […]
Day 2. Jocund Company and Oak Trees
“Flash Upon that Inward Eye” 24×12, oil on canvas $300.00 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering […]
Day 1. I Will Arise Now and Go
“Bee-Loud Glade” 12×24, oil on canvas $300.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/bee-loud-glade/436649″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] The Lake Isle of Innisfree B. Yeats, 1865 – 1939 I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive […]
Making a Good Start
My art business has grown substantially in the last year and half. I’ve taken on this whole live painting phenomenon, and I’ve started selling bigger pieces. I’ve done more commissioned work than I’d ever dreamed. It’s good. I’ve got no complaints. What I do have is a little nagging feeling. The kind that tells me its […]
For Love of Red…
“Space for Gratitude” 20x20x1.5, oil on canvas $320.00 [creativ_button url=”http://www.dailypaintworks.com/fineart/denise-hopkins/space-for-gratitude/426126″ icon=”” label=”Buy Now” colour=”red” colour_custom=”” size=”medium” edge=”straight” target=”_self”] I’m not talking about cups. I don’t care, and I’ve yet to meet a person online or otherwise who does. Usually controversial topics enter my newsfeed in the form of two very different types of “friends” taking the […]
Things that Make you Go Meh: The Art of Parenting Continues

Compared to parenting, painting has felt like a breeze. Although I’ve struggled in the studio lately– trying to find the rhythm I once took for granted, the real challenge has been forming, shaping, supporting, molding, nurturing the little human being somehow entrusted to my care. This month has brought on a trying series of events […]