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springcentric — For Daddy
Published: 2003-12-05 20:28:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 297; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 31
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I am walking home tonightthe air is getting colder
I think, soon it will be cold
I look up
and the sky is painted in blue and fuscia
I look down
and I see the leaves beginning to nestle
in the crevices of my street
I look ahead
and I see a man, walking towards me
for one moment
I think he is my father
and I am happy
because I miss him so much
but it is not him
and I am sad
I hurry home
because the air is getting colder
and I think soon it will be cold.
Acrylics on canvas
Some lite photshop.
Painted with poem, for my father, for his birthday
after I moved from Alabama to New York
it hangs above his dresser.
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Comments: 11
The extra manipulation in Photoshop on this one helped a good bit. The entire feel of the piece changes with the deepening of the reds.
I love you Spring Rae
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i almost missed this cause there not much on the thumbnail
i love this warm BROODING atmosphere!
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I should mention this was inspired by the art of Jeffrey Jones.
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The poem hits home for me. I have never met my own father, but I can still miss him at times; and sometimes I think - when someone passes me by on the street - that this person, just as well as any other, could be him. It's not exactly in line with your poem, but maybe I should write one of my own..
Anyways. I think the painting is very beautiful in a lonely kind of way.. I wish though that you hadn't compressed the JPEG so heavily, as it shows very much, and.. bothers, greatly.
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Thank you so much! I will work on the compression thing. I am soo not tech savy.
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I'm really liking the colors and shape of this.
The meaning of course adds so much to the piece.
Awsome work!
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awe. that is just really sweet.... it hits a forgotten spot in my heart.....
kudos about the painting too!
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Thank you. When I gave it to him he said "what are you trying to do? Make me cry?" and then he gave me a big bear hug. Happy it touched you.
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the poem is very touching and the painting is very intereting 
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Brush strokes I am sure helped to create textures. I did photoshop to bring up the reds in the backgroud. These old fashioned paint and brush works never translate as well as I would like.
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