Art kan never outdo or surpass nature's own way of expressing beauty, it can however try to interpret or explain. I'm not at all content with this thistle-softpastel, but I'm showing it anyway. When I was little I used to paint WITH thistles and paint made of "puréed" grass or flowers or mud and water... yet, when I'm sitting in front of my working desk with the opportunity to choose between hundreds of pastels I still can't seem to find the right nuance for the "flowerbrush"..
"Funny. It reflects no green" he says, the one I always complain to about things I don't understand - like colours. "Petrol, perhaps. But no green".
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Maybe that is why, in the middle of the summer, when my eyes are overflooded by green, green and green again (yes, I've been mowing the lawn this afternoon!) I need the thistles - not to drown and to wake me up.
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Because they reflect no green.
The way my blue eyes do.
Even if they're not really blue at all.
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I think it looks lovely, but an artist will always criticize his or her own work! I love thistles too, the have an interesting shape and colors...
Thank You, dear Darren! :-)
I think the pastel rendering is very lovely! Count me in the thistle loving club. Most people consider them weeds..last year I planted seeds I collected roadside, on the island. I was so excited when two plants appeared this year.
Thanks for sharing it..I'm glad I stopped by this evening.:)
Sparkles of energy to you!
Thistles are nature's very own colourbrushes! Unfortunately we did not have a lot of them this summer and so I'm looking forward to the next... :-)
Thanks for the energy - I DOOOO need it!
Lots of love to You, dear Gypsy!
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