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    LOVE IT SO MUCH!
    Sand 'tween my toes
    and minimal clothes
    make for fun in the sun
    yeah you know it!

    but the seashore at night
    is a sensual sight
    as the moonbeams
    sow love seeds for poets!

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    Time
    Time is a weird thing
    goes sooo slow when yer
    waiting for the bell to ring
    goes fast on Christmas
    and sunny days
    and when you're in love
    it compresses and strays,
    time is elastic
    and sometimes like glue
    but it's never wasted
    when I talk to you!

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    Artists
    all great artists seem full of doubt
    there is too much inside
    and not enough out
    but each piece of art
    makes someones day,
    perhaps our souls
    need it that way.

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    kharmalade
    Would this have made
    a good last day?
    did I accomplish
    any kharmalade goal?
    did I climb some sunsetted peak

    by the bay
    to placate my expectant soul?
    no, but i did take a second
    to look around
    like that dude
    with his own Iron Chefs,
    and in that infinity portal
    i'll go as a mortal
    suspecting it's all for the best....

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    SOMETHING GOOD
    I remember something good
    back when days
    unfolded like
    a grand adventure should.
    I don't want to just fit in
    be functional like some machine,
    I want a purpose
    need the wind
    to blow the scent of fortune
    on my skin.
    Are you of that small percent
    who cannot fold
    who will not bend
    who takes a soul and strips it bare
    not because you can
    but because it's there... ?

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    You Is You
    You are you and that is good
    you may not be what they say you should
    or be that which you cannot be
    and you wouldn't want to be like me
    but I see you as you and so
    if you see me unmasked say "yo"
    "what makes Me me is all unique
    what makes us Us makes us complete"

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    I Artist
     i sometimes wonder

    if it is so
    that I am an artist 
    simply because i say so
    was I born with talent
    to write or to paint?
    a prodigy perhaps?
    there's no doubt that I aint
    not a leader or lackey
    no big money schemes
    but an artist 
    resulting from having big dreams
    they say visualise
    what you want to be
    regardless of what people say
    and all will come true
    quite possibly
    maybe
    some happy day!!

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    THE DANDYLION STAR
    Amongst the speckled field of black
    I saw the dandylion star
    it winked at me
    and I winked back
    and sent that wish up far,
    the other stars
    looked more like gems
    like diamonds stuck in tar,
    but I liked the mellow
    glow of the yellow
    wonderful dandylion star.
    like crystal fish the others sit
    cold like a platinum bar,
    but how can you miss
    when you make a wish
    upon the dandylion star?

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    WE TWO STARS
    We two stars
    burn so intense
    without pretence or fuss
    and what would we say
    if somewhere far away
    someone made a wish upon us?
    for the darker the night
    the brighter the light
    that shines for every face
    so get up and stay
    in the vast milky way
    and add your light to the space!

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    "Five 46PM" acrylic on canvas 36x48 inches 2003

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what are the trees looking at?

landscape after the yellow layer

At this point I’ve added four different green’s and three yellow oil paints. The orange pink red layer is underway then a layer of violet!  Photographs don’t really do oil paintings justice, the color is really vibrant in the light,  in some ways this painting is more like Mark Rothko’s color field paintings than a landscape, at least to me. 

My friend Pamster asked me what were the trees looking at down the hill? hehe, funny how it takes another person’s comment to make the picture take on a whole new direction! I was thinking about having faeries flying around so I think I’ll have them flying from the lower left corner up! I’ve been wanting to paint simple faeries like John Anster Fitzgerald did in his Fairies Looking Through an Open Window painting.

This is one of my all time favorite paintings, look at how punkrock the faerie at the window looks! The white allows for a rainbow of colors to be added subtly, and heck the faerie at the top has violet while the one at the bottom (punk faerie) has red, the extremes of the spectrum! I keep thinking about light, from the pure joy of seeing rainbows from crystals to the holographic universe theories.  I’m not a scientist and I don’t have any spiritual insights to share but I do know that there is a magic in art.

hmmm I guess this is a point for the faeries! Faeries 1, Angels 0

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5 Responses to “what are the trees looking at?”

  1. I love the quality of light and shadow in your paintings! Are you doing any shows in NJ?

  2. hello cartoongoddess, thanks! It took me a long time to learn the basics of light and shadow, but I can say that it is a do-able thing!

    I have had oil paintings in the past 3 Art Alliance shows in Red Bank and expect to show in more places soon!

  3. It’s mesmerizing watching how another artist conceptualizes and paints. I’ve enjoyed seeing the painting in all of the different stages. Now if only I could make myself slow down and take the time to capture my work like this.

  4. thanks Lee, you have the potential to do whatever art you choose, I’m sure you’ll find what is right for you!

  5. I am enjoying watching it come to life and the process both in your mind and on the canvas. This is a lot of fun Daz, thanks for sharing this.

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