This is from early in 2023. I’d just finished a larger acrylic abstract winter landscape…

Laying-on Paint

background music
to start – sonatas for
violin and guitar

canvas prepared
rough draft of
vision laid down

paints on palate
essential colors
mixed and ready

brush-tip drips color
laid on canvas and
shapes are rendered

with patient strokes
or dabbed and scraped
with palette knife bold

music changes as
sessions fly by
painting completed

in many winks of
the eye – studied
this playful vision

rendered with personal
flourishes and gestures
signed sealed delivered

then start again
in meditation
laying-on paint

–LE