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The Colour of Dragons

September 20, 2017Amsterdam, Fantasy, Painting, poem, Poetry, speculative poetry, watercolourAmsterdam, art, Berlin, colour, dragon, Fantasy, London, Paris, poem, poetry, speculative poetry, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

The colour of dragons
Depends

Sweet green for new hatchlings
To hide in high grasses

Black and red for an Emperor
Or a burner of crops
Many turn as gold as their treasure
Perhaps part of ageing

What colour a city dragon
Lurking on rooftops?

In Paris, creamy white as the buildings
In Berlin and London
Perhaps a glassy hue
Criss-crossed

In Amsterdam?
Turquoise and purple
With scarlet undertones………

I’m trying to paint a dragon in Amsterdam……….what colour???

Blue Anchor beach

July 31, 2017art, beauty, exmoor, nature, Painting, watercolourart, Blue Anchor, exmoor, fossil, nature, Painting, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

A watercolour painting of the eastern end of Blue Anchor beach, near Exmoor. This is where we have collected many fine fossils. Painted in 2016 — the rocks have been battered by further winter storms and look a bit different this year.

Seal

July 27, 2017archeology, art, nature, poem, Poetry, Sciencearcheology, art, history, humanity, Life, Nunalleq, poem, poetry, prehistory, sealThe Cheesesellers Wife

Liquid eyes looking through time, staring out from the wood
Lost possession, unregarded litter, draft for a larger work?
It is treasure now
Seal eloquently sealed into timber
Sparse lines, rich artistry

I’ve just discovered an interibfng wordpress arceological site amd was moved to write the above poem after looking long at a seal carving they have found.

https://nunalleq.wordpress.com/

https://nunalleq.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/artefact-of-the-day-july-25th/

Nunalleq is the name of an archaeological site in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Southwestern Alaska. The University of Aberdeen Department of Archaeology, in partnership with the village corporation Qanirtuuq, Inc. and the Yup’ik Eskimo village of Quinhagak, Alaska, is working to record archaeological sites threatened by rising sea levels along the Bering Sea.

Nunalleq means ‘the OldVillage’ in Yup’ik. Previous years excavations (2009 & 2010) reveal that this ‘old village’ dates back at least 700 years. It is a multi-period prehistoric (or precontact) Yup’ik winter village site.

Twisted Thorn trees

July 24, 2017art, exmoor, nature, Painting, watercolour, Wild life, winterart, exmoor, Painting, thorns, trees, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

Twisted Thorn trees near the ruins of Badgeworthy village on Exmoor.

Dunkery Beacon, Exmoor

July 17, 2017art, exmoor, watercolour, weatherart, Dunkery, exmoor, sky, sun, Sunset, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

A watercolour of the sun setting behind Dunkery Beacon, painted from the fields around our favourite holiday cottage.

Monday Watercolour: Azores sailing boat

July 10, 2017art, Azores, beauty, nature, Painting, Technologyart, azores, boat, Horta, Painting, sailing, watercolourThe Cheesesellers Wife

Re-starting my Monday watercolours…….

This is a traditional Azorean whaling boat, which I saw sailing in a regatta at Horta Sea Week in 2015.

Gonzo

June 27, 2017art, beauty, poem, Poetryart, beauty, poem, poetryThe Cheesesellers Wife

Sometimes I get gonzo over words
Or struck on a view, a detail
Sometimes I need to capture the
Moment, view, emotion, ache
Sometimes I’m playing
Like now