9/11/2019 Eighteen Years on...lest we forget! Falling Man (Rest in Peace) Where were you that day? That day they wounded New York! Who are they? Will we ever know? In the name of what god? May I not go to His Heaven. Falling man Potential interrupted Single act of desperation. Hope abruptly flung out the window! Another light extinguished. Public face Of private terror Emblazoned image Enduring. You confronted death In one graceful mid-air leap Into the arms of Morpheus Flying man! Plummeting towards earth Head first Icarus in reverse You decided You escaped You determined your fate Your choice not theirs To leap - not fall! You are man who choose Man who leaped! Brave man Not falling man After all!
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2019 WATERCOLOURS AND OILS
DECEMBER 2019 Sibling Rivalry (or Carmel, Joan, Betty, Bernie and Anne :-)). OCTOBER AUGUST/SEPTEMBER This is the latest oil painting and it has found a good home. Beneath the Cherry Blossom (SOLD) JUNE & JULY These were very busy months but with a challenge from ARTLIMERICK for a pig painting, I managed to produce these two little watercolours MAY Montbretia along the West Clare coast at sunset APRIL APPROACHING THE ROCKS (THE SKELLIGS) Approaching the rocks (The Skelligs) Oil on stretched canvas frame OILS - ON SHOW IN CASEYS, RAHEEN, LIMERICK FOR APRIL AND MAY I found this challenge really helped my and informed my painting in other mediums. I learned that it is so important to get your drawing right before you apply paint. The process is use: Complete the drawing of your subject paying particular attention to composition. Draw a subject you like and one where you can visualise the outcome. Mask off any areas
