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| as i paint a picture of birds.. and there on the canvas are two baby shoes and a childs hand and a foot.. and a feather and some branches and buttons all about.... and i tell you what it says... O' fly little child O' fly... since a child you have known how to fly as the birds take wing join them in the sky.. cast away your toddling shoes and join them in the sky do not question do not hesitate but follow your dreams and fly.... if others try to hold you down tear those buttons off be unfettered and do the better by joining the birds in the sky... it is called "Fly Lil Child Fly" 18 x 30 inches Not for Sale |
| i paint a canvas of southern leaves, and a shoe is there to mark my steps. where the wild things grow little do know of the spirits that spoke with me. there always was a calling to come follow through the forest and into the light... step in wonder step in beauty step in peace and marvel. step in the world of things so majestic O' step through the forest and into the light. "The Early Steps" 30 x 37 inches |
| i paint a picture of a tree and in it a gal. O' sleep in the pine lil gal where the hoot owl will calm you the whip poor will remind you of my love i have for you, O' sleep in the pine and climb to the stars and reach for your dreams and know where ere you are, my love will carry you all through the night and ill greet you again with the morning light. O' sleep in the pine lil gal. whistle whippoorwill, whippoorwill, whippoorwill, i love you lil gal... "Sleep in the Pine Lil Girl" 31 x 18.5 inches |
| i paint a dancer ghostly with graceful pose on a black background surrounded by rose and around her waist and to the side are thorn bramble cane with rose hips. and two baby shoes are in the center. Cast your toddling shoes away, who would know that which would come as you grew, but you had to, and face what you will, do it with grace. Beauty and sorrow light and dark things can prick and pain you, but do your own dance and do it with grace it is up to you to fill an elsewise empty space. O' beauty and fruit in which to delight, do your own dance and dance in the light. O' cast your toddling shoes away, do a dance of grace... "The Dance" 30 x 36 inches |
| i paint a picture of the branches of birch, the catkins i so loved to see. and the trillium and the jack in the pulpit praying. signs of spring after the long winters. solid and offering many discoveries amongst its branches, patterns and designs which id not find in a store. midnight in the moonlight, by the birch on the hill beyond the thicket of fir, midnight in the moonlight the birch and me where laying beneath id look up and be brought to a world of tree. "Night Birch" 30 x 42 inches |
| i paint a canvas of dark and stormy sky with a horizon of skeleton of trees. and two curtains open with a lady in pose. o' the minstrels play and the minstrels sing and im doing a dance of my own. there behind the curtain in my room im singing a tune no one hears and the storms are the realms within me that i ride on and battle alone. yet i stand on a pillar of light and take flight with shoes cast a side. o' the minstrels sing the minstrels play and im doing a dance of my own. "The Minstrel's Play" 36 x 30 inches |
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| Commissions available! I am happy to work with you on various themes and decorative motifs |
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| ...The prairie with sky expansive, as large as the hope that lie in the hearts of my homesteading forefathers. "Prairie Sky" 30" x 18" inches |
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