In about two minutes, I'm going to eat this! Today is my first Open Studio and Gallery Day for the season (May through October). I'll be back later to post a poem, but I've got a couple more hours to paint.
I've just purchased and begun reading a biography of John Donne, entitled The Reformed Soul by John Stubbs. So with reference to that I'll post a Donne poem:
XIX
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one:
Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot
A constant habit; that when I would not
I change in vows, and in devotion.
As humorous is my contrition
As my profane love, and as soon forgot:
As riddlingly distemper'd, cold and hot,
As praying, as mute; as infintite, as none.
I durst not view heaven yesterday; and today
In prayers, and flattering speeches I court God:
Tomorrow I quake with true fear of his rod.
So my devout fits come and go away
Like a fantastic ague: save that here
Those are my best days, when I shake with fear.
German Chocolate Cupcake, Oil on Canvas, 6x6, $150.00 USD
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2 comments:
Beautiful work. Im glad I found your blog. I really enjoyed your post on Lipking's workshop. I do have a question about that. Do you recall what color and value Jeremy had under his glass palette?
Best, Jason
Thank you, Jason. You know, that's a good question about Jeremy Lipking's palette. It seems to me it was a sort of grey/green underneath. It wasn't white. My best guess is that it was grey. That seems to be a touchstone color for him. His studio walls, I have read, are a sort of blue/grey.
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