"Changes" - Self Portrait

"Changes" - Self Portrait - Vanessa Victoria Kilmer 20231003
Metallic Acrylic Pouring Paint on Strathmore Mixed Media Paper 184#
9" x 12", done without cleaning the brush or letting it dry between colors

  In his art class this semester, 

my grandson was studying the portraits done by 

the contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley, 

the man who painted the official portrait of 

President Barrack Obama for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

His signature style involves the use of repetitive patterns

 in the backgrounds of his portraits.

Whenever my grandson has an art piece to do, 

we do the assignment together. 

It's rather challenging for him because he is colorblind 

and that frustrates him immensely.

So part of what I try to show him 

is adjusting for these things.

I have dyslexia and dysnomia,

only discovered when I was in my thirties.

I learned my own ways to compensate for both

from the moment I became interested in books at the age of two,

rivers of green

sunlight strikes the water

the sky turns green

and i a reminded to color

inside the lines

trees can not be purple

like the color of your

cheeks when i do the

unexpected

walking on eggshells

crushing my imagination

under you boot heels

of sync step

it's impossible to make

the impossible possible

or passable, probable

plausible

not all things in

nature are symmetrical

neat or orderly

dirt has its pleasures

lines are meant for

crossing into other

worlds of daring

do

there's no fitting

into the middle

ground 

Monday Madness

You won't find many pictures of me on the internet [for obvious reasons] but since I've decided to do things that make me feel uncomfortable, I am doing as mindlovemisery suggests and posting an unvarnished photo. I never wear make-up and rarely did even in my disco days. I wouldn't suggest making this image biggerer. :)

the less i know

sapphire skies bring death

unbelievable silence

while blue eyes laugh

fingertips tingle along nerve

endings in excitement

apprehension

sharks keep moving

looking for their next

breath in water

comfort is over-rated

skinned knees scab

kisses make better

words weigh more

than sticks and stones

mindlovemisery - PROMPT 16: LIFE LESSON



a man was paring a pear

at the local county fair

he lopped off a piece

that fell into the grease

and ended as fried country fare

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