Painting with Letters

Exactly!

For this Mesmerizing Medium Monday I was contemplating what medium to tackle and thought it'd be fun to emphasis a form that's near and dear to me...writing!  

Perhaps you've never thought of writing as an art form but by definition it is "an activity that involves creating or expressing something, such as painting, poetry or music."  So there ya go.

You've heard it said "A picture paints a thousand words" but I say

words can paint a thousand mind-pictures.  Here's an example that I hope can relate this concept to you.  There will be no visuals for today as I would like you to read this piece slowly and let the images grow in your own imagination so, you too, will be an artist with your very own, one of a kind Mind Painting. I dare say the writing arts are the only sort that can accomplish this whimsy!

Summer Art Exhibit

One Summer by the shoreline

I was sponging in the

sounds and sights---

an August art exposition

compliments of the

Old Master.

As I strolled along through

the scenic festival

I was softly serenaded by the

melancholy melody

of the free floating

seagulls.

First on my austere tour were

cloud clay sculptures

wafting lazily above---

the display being interestingly impressionistic.

Delicate web weavings were

displayed in not oft traveled venues

while the seashell collages were

scattered freely in the

sandy shore.

Sunset watercolors splashed above the

glassy blue pool in hazy hues of

purple, pink and gold.

Charcoal shadow etchings of

wispy shore shrubbery were contrasted against

the last illuminating pink light of dusk.

The negative-positive resist of the

pin-poked starlight's against

 the stark darkness of the night sky

quietly concluded that days

Summer Art Exhibit.

As I was lying in the still silence of

my room,

I pondered on the subtle skill and genius of

the Artist Divine

and on His creative generosity---

Softly I spoke

"Thanks and love from

me."

CCB

3/28/96