Tuesday 18 May 2010

Snowflake

Snowflake


This is another painting that those very few people who have been with me from day one may have seen. I had an idea for a painting and it had gone very badly wrong.


I was feeling very frustrated at the thought of cleaning it all of and beginning again. I stopped and looked, then looked again. I began to believe all was not lost. In the midst of what I had painted I saw the beginning of something else.

With very little tweaks the painting I show today appeared. I was painted using knives with acrylic on canvas.

It sold within days of going on my website and I believe it still gives joy to the family that bought it.

Why did I choose to use it today? It is like a snowflake. A snowflake is such a fragile thing. The minute you catch it, it is no more.

If we fill our lives with wants we can swamp our lives with things that are beyond our reach. Or we could reach out and grasp and find it is not what we thought.

It is important to know what it is we need and do not need in life.

This blog is linked to my other blog:- What is it we Need?

7 comments:

  1. What a beautiful painting Ralph. I'm not at all surprised that it sold quickly! You have something very special that I lack - Imagination - and I need to find mine!

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  2. I thought it was one of the dandelion fluffs! Still, I like this piece Ralph. I do always seem to march to the beat of a different drummer.

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  3. Again, I like the thought with the post. The painting is quite spectacular the bigger the better.

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  4. Ralph, This is so imaginative. Do you have a photo of the previous version? Curious about the evolution of it...

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  5. I really like this painting Ralph. I would never have thought to put that background color but it is perfect with the subject. You do have a great imagination. I could learn from you.

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  6. Hello Ralph,
    nice to read your profile. You stay true and this is appreciated, I like your art very much!

    regards from Greece, you have a new fan here! :)

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  7. Tout ce qui est éphémère est merveilleux...

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