Recently I have found a number of blogs that host art challenges each month.
Several of them appeal to me. This week I chose to do the challenge at Different Strokes(link in title). Here is my interpretation of the photograph prompt there:
Old Things
I love old things...old books...old friends,
The lovely way an old tree bends,
Above a little clapboard house,
a tiny yard still as a mouse.
An old log house beyond the town,
It's oaken rafter falling down,
Yet holding in each chimney stone,
An ageless beauty of it's own.
I love old things....timeworn and frayed,
Upon whose heart the years have laid,
A kindly touch as if to show,
the beauty of their inner glow.
~Edna Jaques
That is a beautiful photo/painting and that poem by Edna Jacques is soothing. Thanks for sharing. Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeletegood work Gemma! It is fun to learn from an art challenge!
ReplyDeleteGemma! Your art is awesome. gal! I love that you take up the challenges. Remembrewhen we did 101 self portraits...did you?
ReplyDeleteWhat an extraordinary drawing...your talent amazes me and puts me at awe. The way you can capture the essence of a subject the way you do.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason your post reminded me of a fave Simon&Garfunkel song:
Old friends,
Old friends
Sat on their park bench
Like bookends.
A newspaper blown though the grass
Falls on the round toes
Of the high shoes
Of the old friends.
Old friends,
Winter companions,
The old men
Lost in their overcoats,
Waiting for the sunset.
The sounds of the city,
Sifting through trees,
Settle like dust
On the shoulders
Of the old friends.
Can you imagine us
Years from today,
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange
To be seventy.
Old friends,
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fears
Love and hugs,
Lisa
XOXOXOXO
Gemma, I love your interpretation. I found the Different Strokes blog with a little digging (your link didn't work). I am intrigued by this site and the challenges it offers, especially the longer timelines.
ReplyDeleteYour rendering is lovely. I really like how you do shadows.
ReplyDeleteI love old things too. And they were so much better made than the things today.
gemma,
ReplyDeletehow
encouraging you are
with your turn
at a new challenge!
you did so good, missy,
and it was fun looking
at all the interpretations...
:-)
you make me want to give it a try
but
the truth is
i have been sketching MAPS
lately
and
i wonder WHERE that comes from...
{{ hint----> trusty map }}
that drawing is beautiful Gem xoxo
ReplyDeleteThat is beautiful. And I love old things too.
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