This mixed media painting is base on a photograph of a particular spot I like taken by my fiend Jessie. I have never been there.
This, however, is my fourth painting of it, all at different times of year. This one makes liberal use of watercolour, gesso, acrylic ink and white oil pastel. I hope you enjoy it.
I have offered it to Jessie to go on her wall, or up the fire, or whatever appeals. I wonder how it will feel accepting a painting from somebody who you know will have crossed the rainbow in just a relatively few months' time.
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it’s an interesting point you bring up Brent …. about how people feel about gifting from croakers like us. I have some Orient and Flume art glass and jewelry from their 70s era that a couple of friends have admired. I recently gave them the pieces and “ both “ expressed feeling uncomfortable or odd about it , under the circumstances. It is interesting and not what I expected.
Love the painting! I'll take it if she won't. 😜 I would hope she is not uncomfortable. I don't know why the others were. When I was a teenager, I had a friend who was killed in a car crash. His mom took me into his room and said to take something to remind me of him. I did and I thought that was a good gesture.
Gifting someone while alive is different than allowing someone to choose a token after a passing. I cherish paintings done by my friends and relatives whether still living or not (more not as I age), no matter if they were purchased or gifts. They are tokens that bring back memories and are displayed in every room of my home.
My mother was an artist, and after she moved into a care facility, while preparing the house for an estate sale, I found a study she had done while she was coping with my father's impending death from APCa. It was so dark, a person walking away thru a doorway, that I was struck by her pain and depression. I couldn't bear to take it, instead buried it in a stack of watercolor paper for the sale and never saw it again. She lived twenty more years after his passing, but never lifted a brush after he was gone. I cannot forget that study, but I do enjoy the six paintings and two drawings I chose from her estate.
I think it will be a treasured piece of art that will be displayed in a special place. I wish this was a way for you to have some of your art printed onto cards that could be sold with proceeds to fund Prostate Cancer research. Your legacy would live on and help others.
Thanks for sharing this Brent. I'd love to see the 4 versions posted together.
As for how Jessie will feel, I've given up trying to anticipate my friends and family member's responses to being reminded that my mortality. Tomorrow is my 3rd cancerversary, and I have been thinking about gifting some of my work to each of my family and dear friends. I may still do so for some people, but one of my daughters made it clear that a gift of that kind would be too poignant for her at this time.
Let's face it............. Families and Friends want cash. That's it............
Loss of day's here on HU (except for my posts).....so shit on your versary (yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever). For me...... just give me a smile.........
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