A Simple Sunday featuring art by A-Rhodi
Welcome back old friends and a special welcome to those of you who are new
WE are thrilled to have:
About the artist (by the artist):
I’ve had a very ‘artsy” kind of life since way before I had any choice in the matter. Both my parents were very much into art, music, and photography, and the creative environment they both worked in just kind of rubbed off on me. They encouraged me to pursue photography by giving me my first camera when I was only 5 years old. It became my first love for I was completely swept away with it.
Along the path of my visual education, I discovered I also had a love for the Fine Arts. The ‘Impressionists’ of course were a favorite genre of mine right off the bat, but when I went as a student to Europe to study Art History, I fell in love with the art work of the Spanish Masters, particularly the paintings of Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez. His painting, “Las Meninas”, is my favorite. His use and manipulation of perspective within his art just blows my mind. And seeing the actual original art piece in El Museo del Nacional Prado, in Madrid Spain…well no words can actually capture the moment well enough.
I mention all this art history because it plays a major influence on the art I create today. As a graphic designer I’m always looking at controlling and manipulating the theme, perspective and atmosphere, texture and lighting of the subject I’m working with. I often will include very subtle humor infused within my imagery just to throw in a curve ball to see whose paying attention as Velázquez did in his “Las Meninas.” I truly enjoy this way of celebrating life with art and humor all while still getting a message across.
In this art piece “The Cliff House At Ocean Beach” I’ve taken a photo and overlaid it against half itself and placed a poster filter on that half layer. This time the actual lighting has not been changed; it was taken right at sunset when the sun dipped below the cloud bank when the sunset was so intense. I wanted to capture the sharp contrast of the golden land against the grey cloudy sky. but I’ll let you interpret the meaning of it all.
I hope you find this art an inspiring muse for your poetic imagination. The Cliff house is a real place but you are free to create it into anything you want with your poetry.
As always, have fun, be creative, and enjoy!
Today’s Featured Artwork
“The Cliff House at Ocean Beach”
please use only this piece of art for your poetic inspiration
One more Thing…Video Chat
A family committment will keep our artist from being able to chat with us tomorrow, but no worries….
We will be posting a video chat to open at 2:00 pm (Eastern time)…1:00 p.m. (Friendburst time, etc….)
Come and read the poems you’ve created from this art or just come to chat and listen to others read their poems.
We’ll be there…we hope you’ll be there, too
We’ve been wondering all week what beautiful poetic offerings we would see today.
We can’t wait any longer, so let’s begin…..
OMG throwing snowballs and heading down that hill skipping rocks and fireflies… Sis such a treasured place!!
You have to know this touched my heart.. brought back so many of my family memories.. I miss… and treasure!
Thank you to you sis…. and Jon… for the lovely (both of you) presented!! :love: :love: :love:
I Keep Trying To Laugh, But I Choke Instead
this island is so
small, everyone knows
everyone,
everyone runs around
fucking everyone,
especially in the winter
when there’s nothing else
to do.
for 7 years I’ve managed
to stay out of the loop,
also managed to get laid
very infrequently,
keeping alone has its advantages
and disadvantages
I get a lot of work done
and manage to keep myself
fairly sane,
people diminish me
love absorbs me
my heart and my brain
have never
agreed
on anything.
I am suspended between
two desires
and completely
imbalanced,
it’s like a yoke
a chain
a cross,
it’s
too much to bear.
but there is balance
to be found
but this island..
my girlfriend left me
for a friend
and I ended up with
one of his X’s
and she left me for
this senatorial candidate:
a politician for Christ’s sake.
I’ve lost a lot of women
to strange circumstance
and other things
but that’s a
first.
it’s got to be time
to
move.
I’m off for the night. See you all on the other side of tomorrow :love: :love: :love:
holy shiznip Jon,I never knew you were into the fine arts wow!(paintings and stuff), I just knew you did really well with graphics and stuff. Wow! Congrats-especially on being featured here. Hugs,Elfwing. And,hello Sevena,Darrell and pals. Good to see all of you here. Btw,the music playing on the golden arch-forest pic is beautiful. t/y.’k. Got to go folks. OMG-this music is so beautiful..t/y again. Peace,Elfwing.
A really great piece to muse off of Jon, especially for this old historical architecture buff. Thanks so much for letting us muse off of it! It drew this, on subjects that means a lot to me, both the romance and the idea that old buildings hold and can cue precious memories for many people who lived and worked in them. I hope the duplicate image is not too disconcerting, an experiment I tried.
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Such a gorgeous work of art, A-Rhodi! Thanks so much for sharing your vision and your art with us here in such a wonderful way. All gorgeous poetry posted as well. I’m looking forward to trying a piece.
WoW Such beauty in your art So, much talent you are blessed with and share with us~ :love: Thank you~
I got fixated on the clouds amd my muse had a grip on me that I couldn’t shake loose ~ so I offer you a haiku. I will ponder this piece some more with a fresh start in the morning *smiling*
I redid.
i’m new here so if i’m not leaving the right kind of art let me know
Wonderful A-Rhodi! I get a Middle Eastern feel about this photo? You put 2 different photo’s together? I’ve only been computer literate for a few year’s now, most my artwork, is done “the old fashioned way” with paint, pen, pencil…but I love to see what other Artist’s do and how they are inspired to create their creation’s.
I think I’m going to try my hand at using your “creation” to write a write. It’s my 1st time doing that, so please, my fellow Creative’s, be nice to me, okay?
Love Ya,
Cheryl Too aka Marta
PS A-Rhodi, I love your work, thank you for the inspiration!
:love:
…and yet, another Haiku….
The road to the top
made with maximum effort
holds it’s own reward.
There is a beauty
lying hidden at the top
unseen from below.
When you reach the top
The ocean comes into view
A secret revealed.
This is the secret
that was hidden from your view…
effort rewards you.
Not the ocean view
but a new life perspective
blooming in your mind.
So make the effort
never give up on yourself
reach ever higher.
Discover yourself
and all that you can achieve
Never quit…ever.
FREE FALLING
Standing here
On the edge of the world
Gives me a place to think
A place to let my thoughts
Fly
Above me blue sky
And beyond,
The sea
A place for my thoughts
To be free
With the seabirds above
This golden rock
A sunset mellows the day
As it melts away
Voices from down below
Like a distant echo
And I think
It’s a good day
Yes it’s a good day,
To let my thoughts fly
:love:
How’d I do? 😆 😆
Looking back on yesterday
These memories like photographs inside the frame
Places unseen for so very long;
I wonder, are they still the same ?
RED CLAD FIELDS
Tourist walk the grounds
Enjoying the view
The red soaked dirt
Where many have fallen
The men of war
Troops of now and long ago
Who knows what lie here
House on the hill
Last one standing lonely
Many come many does
Years and years go by and the sand
Gets redder as it stands
Red clay
Why is it red
Maybe red roses live and die
Upon this land
Whos to say
The red sun could have cook the grounds
Red soaked dirt
What lies here is a wonder
Written By: Bettie Davis ———————————————- © May 29 , 2o11
You guys Seven, Jon and Wiz-D this is a awesome Blog! And thank you Jon for the artistic inspiration and use of your art a real honor!! Hug’s :love:
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FOR JUST A LITTLE WHILE
Summer dreams remembered
within the early-morning mist,
imagination’s wanderings
as I linger here for just a while
the ocean speaks to me
in so many magical ways
as I stop here
for just a moment or two
to listen to its voice,
recalling the treasured times
spent in this place we’ve been
so many times before,
where the sand meets
the waves and the wind.
And as I gather them together,
memories cherished all,
I tuck them away for safekeeping
until the next time we meet here
where the waves and the winds
converge within my heart
and transport me once more
to those dreams found
where the summer mist
meets the waves
and the winds
and the sand,
and I hear their song again.
(c) barbara kausteklis 5-29-11
Thanks again, Jon, for sharing your
artistic vision with us.
All such gorgeous pieces posted here
and inspired by this gorgeous scene.
~barb~
:entertained:
I am a bit late, but I managed to get one done just in time I hope 😀
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