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a kind of prayer
when i, aghast, at my behavior
stomping my feet
at myself
pounding the pavement with my hand
at your stupidity,
cast a glance above my head
i see stars and galaxies
which know nothing of us at all
i grant the creator
with a sense
of humor
though i am angry at his expense.
but then,
i am awed by life all the same
and grateful for the chance.
I_ArtMan july 5, 2007
and just for fun… one of the jaimie watercolors.
this is a young lady i met at the hopper house life-drawing class.
i approached her in a state of trepidation. i had been drawing her for half a year in nyack, new york.
i simply said. "would you pose for me at my studio?" i'll never forget how simply and trustingly she answered with an innocent smile. "sure."
this is my favorite of ten large watercolors i did of her after a year of three hour sessions every week. i instructed her to pretend that a giant had violated her and when he was satisfied threw her into the bushes… what would that look like. then she took this pose.
I think we all have the blasphemous thoughts, once twice and many times in our life. I know that I wonder; how can this be fair? This life that we live? Honestly, I don’t even want to think about it right now. But I have before! I like the painting…it’s very retro nude. (the way her hand is up near her face) Very nice!
thank you for dropping in. it's almost a photographic representation of her pose. painted as they say, a la prima. or on the spot. i'm very proud of these jaime paintings because i know that even spectography will not find a single pencil line and they are almost life sized. as far as blasphemy goes… it's connected i guess with our perrenialdiscontent. which is of course a failure in perception.
Yes, we would be lying if we said we didn't sometimes have blasphemous thoughts. That is human nature..I am afraid. I just stared at that painting for a while…. you are extremely talented…it is so realistic– and I am at a loss for other descriptive words. 🙄 :heart:
i do love the human figure and would even do a series of men. but there is such a homophobic atmosphere clashing with a homoerotic trend that i just feel i don't want to go into those waters.now thankyou for the compliment and the understanding cheryl.and kim, so dear to me, for shouting out excellent. your approval always lifts me.
i agree with angel & dcl…also, am at a loss for descriptive words, except to say EXCELLENT painting.
thanks solid. if only there were more girls like her. you might be interested know that she, jaime, was the most natural model i have ever worked with.allan. i'm sorry if i repeated a painting. i try not to. just priming the pump which still seems to run rather dry. i must say that is a cutting comment about arguing with god. you hit my soft spot.it is a goofy photo… the one you referred to as experimenting. just threw that in because as a smoker who is probably about to quit since even my ears are exuding a kind of black liquid. it's such a hard addiction to free oneself of. i've let go of cigarettes before and am praying to be miraculously cured of it. every day i fight with it.once i even stopped for ten years. that gave my lungs a rest. but now it's killing me again. thanks as always for your interest.
Arguing with God can´t be blasphemous, I think. You can´t argue with someone you don´t take seriously. I have seen the nude before – I still think it´s fantastic :happy:I like the experimenting photo a lot, too!
I also like that painting very much. Not just good technique, but nice clours all round. She looks close to be the kind of people I like – sensitive, passionate, and yet detached.
Scott, I can´t give you any good advice about quitting the fags. I stopped smoking cigarettes in 1987 – because I at the age of 27 found myself gasping for air after climbing 4 floors of stairs in order to visit my sister.But you know what? To this very day I begin searching my pockets for a smoke when somebody else lights a cigarette, until I – for God knows how many times – remember that I don´t smoke anymore.Quitting is damned difficult. You know; you did it before. All I can say is "good luck"!P.s. – I don´t mind seeing a good picture again.P.p.s. Goofy photo or not; gave me an idea to a future one!
thanks allan for your good wishes. it won't be long now and i will take pity on myself and throw a half a pack out the window as i did before. of course that's littering. but it's worth the sin. if i waste that many cigarettes, being of scottish, and proverbially stingy or skinflint ancestry. i won't allow myself to buy another pack.
the last person that i knew that said they were quitting smoking, quit for a month and then went back….i have not had a cigarette since September 16, 2000…and won't go back…especially with the price of them now-a-days
that is an amazingly beautiful painting Scott! :up:
thank you isabel. it was a labor of love.i don't mean to say i was in love with her as a person… just with form.
i understand completely! :heart:
ha ha ha ha… you are alive and well. ha ha ha and a hardy har har.this may surprise everyone but shortly before a series of coincidences and circumstance thrust me out of our house and across the country, she moved to within walking distance of where i lived in pearl river.the last pictures i did of jaime were drawings of her in the final months of pregnancy. i didn't do it. really. she had a boyfriend she loved very much. our relationship was always professional.
Scott, Scott, Scott! To post an exquisite painting like that without giving the model my number?! Truly blasphemous!
and that is the way to b with ur subjects that u r painting…strictly professional
there's no other way than that for an artist; sort of like a doctor. we have to maintain a separation or we spoil the work. thanks for dropping by kim. very affirming comment.
one reason why i appreciate you kim… is that you know, more than anyone else, how to be a friend. i pray that i will never disappoint you.
i don't think that u willand ty, i try to b a friend to ev1 i meet
yes. like your namesake… kim. "friend to all the world." kipling.
yw…i like ur posts, and will continue to watch for them as long as u write them.
that i did not know…ty
It's wonderful to have children. I agree with ricewood. The prophets of OT often argued strongly with God :troll:
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"The prophets of OT often argued strongly with God"is OT representing 'olden times'.? silly me… i just got it. old testament.
i am back home now, and my father is ok…found out that the crew that is working over in the area, knocked his phone lines out the night i was trying to get ahold of him.
welcome home kim. i am so glad your father is alright.
me too, i was getting worried.
Kim :up: