Oddly enough, I love books that feature the landscape as a character. Books like Hemingway's "Islands in the Stream" where the gulf stream becomes a very important part of the story. Early in my reading life, I read "Green Grass of Wyoming". In this book the author describes the grasses and the land in the opening chapter. It reads.......
"the trains chug through an empty wilderness of low hills, dunes, plains; green in spring and early summer, fading to taupe and fawn as the season wears on. The ground is broken here and there by black bearded ridges and cones, or sharp profiled mesas of red granite, or huge pines standing solitary and twisted by the winds, like sardonic old men who know a thing or two."
As a painter and not a writer it becomes my obsession to try and bring to a painting what I feel about the land. Every time I think I am creating my personal best and it will be a master piece. Each time when it is finished I wonder if I could not have done a little better here and there. Every time it is like chasing rainbows.
Oddly enough, I love books that feature the landscape as a character. Books like Hemingway's "Islands in the Stream" where the gulf stream becomes a very important part of the story. Early in my reading life, I read "Green Grass of Wyoming". In this book the author describes the grasses and the land in the opening chapter. It reads.......
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Beautiful painting, Donna! Gosh, that's nice. Interesting thoughts about the connection between writing and painting too. Lately I've discovered that taking written notes is more helpful to me than trying to get colors "right" especially when time is very limited. I'm not a poet or writer but there's something weird about that!
Very nice trees, and golden meadow. It must be getting toward fall in your area. Ours is still a lot greener, with Fall to come. Beautiful painting, Donna!
Thank you Donna and Ida. Donna I think you write very well. Your thoughts on WC are well thought out and well said, all things that make good writing. I on the other hand struggle with words both written and spoken. I call it my Idaho accent. Where the correct pronunciation of words is not very easy. Makes it difficult to write if you cannot pronounce it correctly and I am on the quiet side.
Yes Ida we are starting to dream of autumn, however, it is a loooooong way off. Tomorrow it may reach into the 70's and then warm up again into the 90's. Way up and then down again. Might even rain tomorrow and very rare thing for us this time of year. It does mean autumn is on the way.
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