Love Your Mother
Earth Day is a reminder of how important it is to love our Mother Earth every day, and this very primitive little doodle from my journal is in honor of her special day. I have been working, working, and working on some large paintings for a show in June, but when I need a break, I recycle some runny paints from my palette in my journal and play a bit... and with the warm weather, sunny skies, chirping birds, and blooming spring flowers as inspiration, today this is what I got!
Next Time
Next time what I'd do is look at
the earth before saying anything. I'd stop
just before going into a house
and be an emperor for a minute
and listen better to the wind
or to the air being still.
When anyone talked to me, whether
blame or praise or just passing time,
I'd watch the face, how the mouth
has to work, and see any strain, any
sign of what lifted the voice.
And for all, I'd know more -- the earth
bracing itself and soaring, the air
finding every leaf and feather over
forest and water, and for every person
the body glowing inside the clothes
like a light.
- Mary Oliver (1935 - )
P.S. - Please accept my invitation to stop by Wings 4 You Coaching and participate in my Weekly Wings challenges. There's a new challenge posted each Sunday. I'd love to have you along on the journey!
Aww this is beautifully done. Love it. ;)
Posted by: pupu | April 20, 2008 at 08:22 PM
This is amazing. For some reason it makes me think of my grandma. It's just beautiful.
Posted by: Traci Bixby | April 20, 2008 at 08:58 PM
I really like this... and must say it doesn't look primitive to me! Elegant, maybe: but not primitive. And isn't Mary Oliver wonderful?
Posted by: PainterWoman | April 20, 2008 at 11:26 PM
just stunned by the sheer beauty and colour of this peice Carla!!! WOW!!
Posted by: krissie | April 21, 2008 at 03:07 AM
This is beautiful!
Thanks
Caroline
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Posted by: CarolineCaroline | April 21, 2008 at 06:28 AM
All these colors remind me of my nature walk yesterday. I can feel myself walking through your journal path.
Posted by: toni | April 21, 2008 at 07:13 AM
As you well know, Carla, I'm a big fan of creative play. I really like the fact that your journal pieces have been so very different from your paintings. Everything keeps getting better and better. :)
Posted by: Mick Mather | April 21, 2008 at 07:36 AM
This is so beautiful and full of life! The pink, turquoise and yellow jump right off the page. Such lovely words to accompany this piece as well.
Hugs my friend,
a.
Posted by: andrea | April 21, 2008 at 09:45 AM
I am digging your wacky flowers!! Beautiful. :-)
Posted by: willie | April 21, 2008 at 10:35 AM
Yes! I love my Mother!
Posted by: Ces | April 21, 2008 at 11:17 AM
This is lovely Carla. I like how you took extra paint from the work in progress and shared it with your beautiful journal pages. I savored the words of Mary Oliver. Such a wonderful, fitting piece.
I've printed out every one of your challenges and put them in a folder and brought them to the studio in the hopes I'd find the time to start on them. I do intend to, really! I love what you're doing :)
Posted by: studio lolo | April 21, 2008 at 01:02 PM
You're always great in colors combination, another enchanting piece.
Posted by: bobo's slave | April 21, 2008 at 02:27 PM
Love the colors in this one Carla, especially the bright yellow in the top right corner - really caught my eye. What a great way to recycle your paints!
Posted by: laura tm | April 21, 2008 at 06:03 PM
This is just beautiful. I love the white lines over the vibrant colours.
Posted by: Bee | April 21, 2008 at 08:33 PM
this is exceptional. you are so talented. hugs.
Posted by: forever young | April 22, 2008 at 01:58 PM
stunning as usual, you have a great eye for colour and detail
Posted by: lee | April 22, 2008 at 05:24 PM
Your art piece is lovely, and not primitive to me either! The Mary Oliver poem is beautiful, Happy earth day, Roxane
Posted by: rivergardenstudio | April 22, 2008 at 08:08 PM
This is so inspired Carla, and the fact that you make these journal pages from recycled paints is even more impressive. Best of luck with the larger pieces--hope to see them sometime in the near future.
Posted by: steve | April 23, 2008 at 09:51 AM
I love the colours, style & white lines . . well everything about it really.
Posted by: Nicky Linzey | April 23, 2008 at 10:15 AM
I love the colours in your painting!
Posted by: Crafty Green Poet | April 24, 2008 at 03:18 AM
i love adore admire gush over your recent work. there is joy running through those veins. i just know it!
xo
Posted by: kj | April 25, 2008 at 01:10 AM
What a beautiful journal page. The composition makes me feel so content!
Posted by: Shayla | April 27, 2008 at 10:26 PM
What a beautiful and happy journal page!
Posted by: Ann Christine Dennison | April 29, 2008 at 09:08 AM
Thats amazingly beautiful. I love it.
Posted by: Laura | June 01, 2008 at 08:23 PM