WordPress Daily Writing Prompt Q: Tell us one thing you hope people say about you.
(see answer below the photo)
Answer: … That my hair is starting to look like the Wheatstacks and haystack series of Claude Monét
Original photo shot by Myra Lambino
“Wheatstacks, Snow Effect, Morning (Meules, Effet de Neige, Le Matin) 1891 “Claude Monet (French, 1840 – 1926) “In the fall of 1890, Impressionist Claude Monet arranged to have the wheatstacks near his home left out over the winter. By the following summer he had painted them at least thirty times, at different times throughout the seasons. Wheatstacks was Monet’s first series and the first in which he concentrated on a single subject, differentiating pictures only by color, touch, composition, and lighting and weather conditions. He said, “For me a landscape hardly exists at all as a landscape, because its appearance is constantly changing; but it lives by virtue of its surroundings, the air and the light which vary continually … ” (The Getty)
WordPress Daily Writing Prompt: Share five things you’re good at.
Sharing five things i’m good at: 1.Charming snakes 2.Channelling my inner Medusa 3.Ssss-slithering and Hisssssing 4.Shedding and leaving 5.According professional courtesy to members of the reptilian profession
The Getty: “xxx The sculptor Vincenzo Gemito derived his composition from the famous antique cameo, the Tazza Farnese, but transformed it into an entirely new kind of sculptural object. He revived Renaissance techniques of lost-wax casting to make the relief. Although he concentrated on the face of the two-sided, glistening metallic relief, he textured the back with snakeskin.”
(in this photo — just to clarify — Medusa is the one in gold po)
