"Fall Around Me Feathery Silence . . ."

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May 17, 2011, 9:29:22 PM5/17/11

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Greetings Gentle Ones:

We are being inundated with rain up here in Maine - I need some warm sunshine!

I have just finished this 12x24 oil painting using one of our new models at the Live Model Sketch Group.

I purposely kept everything very loose brushstrokes except for the face - the face I painted in great detail because it is the focal point.

A poem goes along with this painting - (taken from "Silence" by S. Miller Hageman, 1876)

Fall around me feathery silence,

Fall around me as I faint,

Heaven's casement-curtains closing softly

Round the dying saint:

Shades of faintness coming o're me,

As Death's iron gates unroll,

Not the famine in my face,

But with the harvest in my soul.

A Warm Thank You to returning collectors Gayle from Ohio and Stephanie from Oregon who purchased new paintings from eBay.

Please take a few minutes to check out my blogs -On http://mainelymary.blogspot.com the question is asked "Who is The Black Man in the Boat?" and on http://thehavenofrest.blogspot.com where "The Tie That Binds" is discussed.

Until next time - pray for sunshine! -

Mary

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- just go to ebay.com and type in "Bullock Art Original" (I will try to get this link fixed soon)

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