- In this Still Life Painting with Poem, "Ancient Soul,"
an original oil on panel, I wanted to create an arrangement that
would allow me to place this poem about creating Art in the subject
matter.
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- Occasionally I will write a poem which I believe is a good
and solid poem, this is one of them. (the other is "Passionate
Palette", No. 151)
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- ANCIENT SOUL
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- Ancient is the air, alive with an evergreen scent
- of mastic and medium.
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- Anxious are the virgin colors of puddled pigments
- beckoning bristles loving blendings.
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- Limitless is the cosmos of the pure white canvas
- not yet ruled by lines forces and forms.
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- Searching is the way beyond the illusion of a mere
painting's
- surfaces into life's depths and dimensions.
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- Fearsome can be the sweetness of the act of the creation
- of an object in which the world will see my soul.
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- by, Paul McMillan
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