Best Gesso Poems

He ran the palm of his hand across the canvas,
Felt its soft, smooth surface, excellent fabric.
It was well primed with gesso, and he was sure
The...

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Every day is a fresh start, a new beginning.
We can reinvent ourselves
We can be revitalized and inspired.
We can instill hope and love in others.

Every face...

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It snowed last night.
Sometime after the New Year arrived
And left everything pristine
Covered in a thick gesso 
Applied by Mother Nature
For just such an occasion
As I...

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Memories of  a  love I’m losing
arrested  thoughts on sculpture paper-
an altered photograph, adorned
 by hand cut leaves, evergreen shades, and lace
From the...

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Here's a tangled    thready    mass of dental floss
Glued on some canvas board with gesso
Each layer of the spider's snare...

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Lying in bed, the light of my computer bright
against the still images slowly changing on the silent TV across the room.
Despoiling the image,
nine seventeen, pm
stands...

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(after a drawing by Ghirlandaio)

We see that it was dashed off in a trice,
without a trace of reticence or nerve.
The contrapposto thigh, the shoulder’s curve,
are...

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Colors of the sunset
painted on the sky canvas
mixed emotions
abstract thoughts
impressions of love
cloud strokes lost 
a palette of dreams
sits by the waste side
a talent of words
a...

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When I was young, I had these dolls, in various guise and shapes,
The first was been the simplest; in it no single garment
or any ornament...

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When he starts a new painting,
Canvas stretched taut against the defining frame,
Gesso-coated smooth and even,
Pure and uniform…
How does he begin?

Are his tubes of paint arrayed...

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When I was young, I had these dolls, in various guise and shapes,
The first was been the simplest; in it no single garment
or any ornament...

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TORRE DE BABEL
Busco a Paz
encontro confusão,
isto é verdade 
na Babel da religião.

Raça, tribo, nação
em todo planeta,
línguas em confusão,
paz não aceita.

Deus, O grande Eu sou,
Pai da...

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The flow of the brush
slobbering colored pigment
upon the gesso...

Emerging from the
hogs hair brush tip a minute
color avenue.


Written 3-2-19
For: "Creativity  In Visual Arts Poetry Contest"
Sponsor:...

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To picture this:
the artist in her truest form:
Morning light in dusty shafts
nipping her wild hair to burn,
Turpentine fingers to print the palette
Dark sienna, aquamarine,
blues on...

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TEMPORISTA 
illuminated
  gesso
   clarum
    glaire
graduations
to
  temper
      &bind
in
 virtuosity...

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