Simple Sunday with Artist Shelly Penko
Welcome to Simple Sunday!
Tonight we are featuring a piece of art by Shelly Penko.
Shelly’s bio:
I am a contemporary, expressive painter, living and working in Austin, TX (of the “Keep Austin Weird” fame!). Austin is a unique town, famous for live music and quirky small businesses and restaurants. It’s a wonderful, inspiring place to live and create art.
I graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in Fine Art and went on to teach art for the next 16 years, in both the elementary and high school levels. I learned more about art when I was teaching than I did getting my degree. I think Picasso had it right when he said:
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
Most often, we get in our own way when making art. I create best when I just go for it, without thinking too hard, like kids do when they paint. It’s then that the magic happens!
My primary goal when creating art is to express my appreciation and awe at the beauty of life, love, relationships, or nature. I hope my art somehow awakens in the viewer a reminder of passion or love or joy. That’s the ultimate success for me, when someone says my work moves them…because when you are moved, you are awake! And the world is in need of more people who are awake.
It is titled “Angel of Spring”.
Looking forward to see what this artwork
inspires your muse with.
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Welcome to Simple Sunday! I will be back a little later to read your musings…hope you are inspired by this “Angel of Spring”. Still snow in my neck of the woods, but it is melting fast and finally starting to feel a little bit more like spring! 🙂 Love to all! :love: :love: :love:
SPRING OF LOVE
^
Heart of wings
Pretty as a picture
White with red so gay
Gives me much joy
Fills my soul
As my heart do sore
Fly high touch the clouds
Feelin so free and at ease be
New inlightin I do see
Far in a distant
Just outta reach yet
I know it there
Love and all its worth
Maybe not for me
But some one
Either way
Love be
On the wings of spring
^
Written By: Bettie Davis —————– © April o6 , 2o13
***ANGEL OF MANY COLORS***
I’ve never seen an angel,I’ve never seen one fly
But I just know somehow they’re watching
From a majestic place up high
These are the things dreams are made of
Of many colors in the sky so bright and lovely
There is a wondrous place called heaven
Where all the angels shine so bright
It’s a place far beyond our vision
A place where beauty dwells
The sky is efferescent and golden
Angels shining, and Angels so bright
into our life they bring delight of
spring colors.The shining Halos on their
head so bright and shining
Beautiful wings that they have earned
The Angels sing their Glory song
like spring time colors green, yellow, blue,
pink and many of gods colors he provide for us.
Some reason could not get this to upload
Beautiful painting ,art by Shelly Penko
Spring`s Angel
With wing spread
Colors of flowers red
Beauty of Spring read
As she was surrounded by flower bed
All colors in bloom non dead
Spring Angel as Spring she led
Feed the birds bread
If roses are white, soft pastel colors soon will wed
Glowing as light shared above her head
MORNING GRACE
As the day awakens
and begins to unfold,
an angel of springtime
graces my garden
and my heart
with her delicate blooms,
her petals unfolding silently,
one by one,
as they do
so fragile,
yet so strong
each one,
as they glisten with dew
in the morning sun.
And as they emerge,
each petal and each bloom,
they cling to each other
and their moments
within the sun,
their magical fragrances
infusing my restless heart
bathing my soul
in the crystalline dewdrops
of morning dreams,
gifted by a springtime angel
gracing my garden of morning
with her translucent
and rose-petalled wings.
(c) barbara kausteklis 4-7-13
“That’s the ultimate success for me, when someone says my work moves them…because when you are moved, you are awake! And the world is in need of more people who are awake.”
That is such a true and profound statement…I am glad to I stopped by to look around and to read that. Have a great evening:) 😀