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Sweet Baby James (2016)Acrylic painting by Lola Jovan
30.48 x 30.48 x 3.81cm / 30.48 x 30.48cm (actual image size)
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Original artwork description
"Sweet Baby James" - acrylic on cradled board, 12" x 12" x 1.5". Ready to hang.
This piece was inspired by the writer Karon Luddy , who recently posted the following Wendell Berry poem:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
After reading this and feeling the call of the wood drake resting, I knew one had to find its way into a painting. But why the title, you might be wondering? There was something sweet about this bird, and he felt at bit James Taylor-ish to me, and the song popped into my head and attached itself to the painting. It was a perfect fit. :)
Materials used:
acrylic paint on cradled hardwood board
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Panel / Board / MDF
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 30.48 x 30.48 x 3.81cm / 30.48 x 30.48cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Animals and birds
Tags:
#wood drake#acrylic#bird#original work#naive#animal art#bird art#duck#whimsical art#whimsy#whimsical animals
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Original artwork description
"Sweet Baby James" - acrylic on cradled board, 12" x 12" x 1.5". Ready to hang.
This piece was inspired by the writer Karon Luddy , who recently posted the following Wendell Berry poem:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
After reading this and feeling the call of the wood drake resting, I knew one had to find its way into a painting. But why the title, you might be wondering? There was something sweet about this bird, and he felt at bit James Taylor-ish to me, and the song popped into my head and attached itself to the painting. It was a perfect fit. :)
Materials used:
acrylic paint on cradled hardwood board
Details:
- Acrylic painting on Panel / Board / MDF
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 30.48 x 30.48 x 3.81cm / 30.48 x 30.48cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed on the front
- Style: Impressionistic
- Subject: Animals and birds
Tags:
#wood drake#acrylic#bird#original work#naive#animal art#bird art#duck#whimsical art#whimsy#whimsical animals
Lola Jovan
United States
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Welcome to the land of the ineffable, where a solitary artist works like a mad scientist to make art and channel emotion (a place, a mood, a person, a thin... Read more