Late Whispers of the Winter Prairie... by anahata.c
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I've lost some color perception, and needed to get back to simple art, to feel paint & simple lines once again... In my childhood, my home still had lots of open prairie: Rolling, barren fields filled with prairie grass that once blanketed whole tracts of this area, swaying & whispering until it lulled you into genuine submission. It had a stillness I've rarely experienced in my life: It was mesmerizing. When the sun went down in winter, all that was left were a few lone shrubs & a mystery-laden sky: Exquisite desolation, almost biblical in intensity, looming & deeply inviting--you felt you were walking with Eternity, like it'd come down to whisper in your ear... This is one of those memories--a simple watercolor, no more, of the deep & gentle silence of the prairie at sundown, in dead of winter...
Comments (14)
3x3
nice work!
lyron
Wonderful sunset. Great work!!
helanker
Mark it is such a gorgeous sunset. It looks so calm and peaceful. I love it. I am sorry you lost some of your color perceptions. I do hope they will come back.
FELIPEART
PERFECT !!!!!!!!!!! LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
magnus073
Mark this is so calming and soothing my friend, you did great once again. This wonderful image combined with your detailed description of what it was like on the prairies brought it to life for me perfectly. Superb work of art and it is memories like this one that mean the most. My hope is your still healing and resting :)
beachzz
The colors got me right away--deep, almost a little broody, then the texture, which just adds to the vast feel of what the prairie must be like. And, just for an extra bonus, it feels cold and raw and windy--wow, all at once!!
odie
Yes, This takes me back in time, too, as I've spent evenings in quiet - just watching the last bits of the day fade into simple silhouettes. The colors are trying to hang on as the dark hues descend reminding our eyelids to close, too. The texture is wonderful as it adds to the blending of colors and the blur of the details that truly happen during such a sunset. What a wonderfully rich feeling this gives me. Thank you, Mark.
JaneEden
I love your intro, this is an excellent artwork with a whole warming effect. Thanks, hugs Jane xx
amota99517
Your art piece create that wonderful feeling of being mesmerized just as your story. It's soft and gentle and has lilting tones of rich energy that is hidden within the strokes that made this image. Beautiful work my friend. I hope your vision heals itself soon.
koosievantutte
fine image, mark.
november22
Yes those brilliant moments 'tween day and night, the sky awash in colors of a transcendental bend. I do hope your eyes mend without any losses.
Susank
Waow! the colors on this one, is beautiful. And the tree's adds the larst dot over the i. Absolutly gorgeous.
bmac62
Hi Mark. I've just been working my way backwards through about ten of your gallery uploads. All fascinating in their simplicity. Also like your sense of humor. I'm stopping here for tonight. Now, I see the connection between your work and mine in Kansas. I catch a lot of humorous flak for Kansas being flat...one of these days I'll take a drive west about 100 miles and take some landscapes that DO show flat:-) I live on the eastern edge of the state and this is rolling hill country...not shallow sea flat like the western 2/3rds. Bill
Minuano
Mark - I'm here looking at your collection and yeah ... I know where you get the flow of inspired comments, you spread around like sunshine. I myself got an enormous lift from your words. It's visceral man, and you know just how to dissect a piece to it's elemental make-up with that great insight of yours --- it is wonderful. This piece of yours, it takes me somewhere in the midwest with a music piece called "Beyond The Missourri Sky" playing. I will be uploading a simple work called "Farmer's Trust" with a somewhat similar skyscape, one of these days. be well my friend ... thanks for the lift once again. see you around. -Julian