The artist wants to paint everything. The joy is seeing if the world can be captured as it is. If he has a vision can he get it down on canvas... or in his poem... or in a song? I want to be as good as Picasso. With one swirling line... to contain the shape of an Aspen tree or a woman combing her hair. In this surreal painting I have attempted to capture a portrait as seen in a dream... to use the old technique of painting a landscape with the person in it... this goes back to Roman times... certainly to Renaissance times... check out the portraits of Giuseppe Arcimboldo. I felt delight painting the details of my friend’s face with the ocean, the clouds, the moon, the islands in the stream, the howling wolf, the third eye moon, the breaching whales, the erupting volcanoes, and the ship tossed in the angry sea. Painting is great delight. Whimsy abounds.
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