Sailing with Sargent and Homer
Recently I discovered the watercolors of John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer, two great American artists that I had known …
Author Archives: Deborah J. Brasket
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I fell in love with the title of Milan Kundera’s novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” long before I ever …
Dreaming in Blue and Gold
I’ve long had a thing about the colors blue and gold, especially in combination. Something about them soothes and excites …
Trying to Capture the Light
Capturing light in painting is one of the artist’s greatest challenges and deepest joys. I fell in love with the …
Nothing But Miracles
Miracles Walt Whitman, 1819 – 1892 Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of …
Still Playing – Landscapes, Dreamscapes
I’m still playing with my painting, copying artists I love or using their vision, their palettes, for inspiration. Still trying …
Can You Paint a Poem?
It’s a question a blogger friend asked one day in response to my comment that I would like to try …
Celebrating Poetry: Music of the Spheres
The first poem I shared on my new blog five years ago was scribbled in the starlight on a moonless …
Celebrating Poetry: Blown Away By Matthew Dickman
In celebration of April as the National Month of Poetry, I’ve been looking back at posts on poetry that I’ve …
Poetry: The Thing We Die for Lack Of
Paul Klee, Versunkene Landschaft, 1918 Wallace Stevens once famously said: “You can’t get the news from poems, but men die …
