Darren Daz Cox, now in Pekin Illinois!
Springtime Maiden oil painting and poem
Yea for me, I woke up, saw this painting on my bedroom wall and was suddenly inspired to finish it! I think there’s still room for some gold highlights, heck, none of my art is ever really finished! But I have made a commitment to sell something in the next Art Alliance show, just to finally pop that cherry of artistic purity, I don’t need it anymore and being a starving artist shouldn’t be a career! 
This painting started as a charcoal sketch directly on the canvas then the first layer of oil paints then a layer of varnish (you can see where the light is reflecting back on this photo!). At This stage I called it "Allegory of Birth" and the background is an abstract of the biological process, later I added another layer to get a sweet blue oil patina that emphasized the bubbles! Remember that you can put as many layers of oil glazes as you want! I chopped that old digital file up in Photoshop to make a nifty abstract below, why? because I can, why be satisfied with one view of your art? 
Springtime Maiden such beauty rarely ever shine in thistledown as soft as thine in petals velvet to the cheek in woodland creatures fragile meek springtime leaf and redbird hop the twitch of squirrels tail the colors from the backdrop POP and next to thee they pale springtime maiden in your court rejoice in natures powers treasures so beautiful cant be bought j’aime tu mon ami dans chez flowers 
~*really really, did I say cheesy yet? poem by Darren Daz Cox From "Florescent Rat Fur" Limited edition monoprint Poetry Book 1990*~ Originally posted 2008-04-17 09:16:59. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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April 17th, 2008 at 9:37 am
How did you get her dress so gossomer thin?
And do you really mean you have never sold a painting? I can’t believe it. Amazing.
I am glad you are feeling inspired. Good things are coming for you.
April 17th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Thanks Wendi!
The thing about oil paint that makes it so magical is it is translucent so a thin layer of white oil paint over a soild under-painting can look really nice!
and yes, I have never, ever, sold a painting – yet!
April 17th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Yeah, well, you’re ABOUT to! Seriously – I’m interested in that horse painting from a few posts back; I think my BIL would really love it….
April 17th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
ok…tooo hard to believe.
Let’s talk moons
April 18th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
So I keep finding myself wandering back here, over and over and over again, staring at this springtime maiden, and I says to myself, “self? What is it about this paining that keeps dragging you back here?”
And self answers “It’s the story. I want to hear the story she has to tell. She is going on an adventure and I want to follow her.”
Where is she going Daz? Who are her friends? What is her story? What is her adventure? She is a book waiting to unfold. I want to read it…..
April 18th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
She’s so ethereal and spirited with colors that you find in dreams…
never let go of the artist part, maybe just the starving
April 18th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Hi Wendi! I’m not sure if the maiden has a story that I can tell you, not that there is some private story I won’t share, but that I’d rather you let her tell you her story as you know what you like.
Inspiration requires some work on your part too, I paint to inspire your imagination, all the ‘springtime maiden’ moments you have experienced are what you should think of when you look at her and that feeling of having a bubble pop on your cheek.
Magic only works when you believe in it! I’m finishing up some moon paintings too btw!
April 18th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Great artists make art seem so easy and accessible that we somehow believe that we too can pick up a brush and create beauty. This is not only great art but magic, pure magic. I am humbled by your talent.
April 19th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Thanks Karen! please don’t let your humbleness prevent you from creating art, it’s not a contest where talent can be compared and judged, Michelangelo wrote the most horrid poetry yet he wrote them anyway because he was an artist and that was a facet of art he was unafraid to explore.
What makes an artist great is making art that you believe in, realism is just a skill that anyone can learn but losing the fear that you aren’t ‘as good as’ is the key to good art!